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κεραυνός

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεραυνός κεραυνοῦ

Structure: κεραυν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a thunderbolt, thunder, thunder

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἤριπε δ’, ὡσ ὅτε τισ δρῦσ ἤριπεν ἢ ὅτε πεύκη ἠλίβατοσ, πληγεῖσα Διὸσ ψολόεντι κεραυνῷ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 38:6)
  • "οὐ γὰρ Ἀσκληπιὸσ καὶ Διόνυσοσ κεραυνῷ; (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 5:4)
  • βάλλε, ὦ Ζεῦ, εἴ μοι καὶ κεραυνῷ πληγῆναι εἵμαρται, καὶ σὲ οὐδὲν αἰτιάσομαι τῆσ πληγῆσ, ἀλλὰ τὴν Κλωθὼ τὴν διὰ σοῦ τιτρώσκουσαν οὐδὲ γὰρ τὸν κεραυνὸν αὐτὸν φαίην ἂν αἴτιον μοι γενέσθαι τοῦ τραύματοσ. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 15:3)
  • καί μιν ἔπεμψε πατήρ ἀγαθῶν ἀνδρῶν ἐπαρωγόν καὶ πάλιν ἐσ Διὸσ εἶσι Διὸσ βληθεῖσα κεραυνῷ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 40:4)
  • προειπὼν δὲ διὰ χρησμοῦ περὶ αὑτοῦ ὅτι ζῆσαι εἵμαρται αὐτῷ ἔτη πεντήκοντα καὶ ἑκατόν, εἶτα κεραυνῷ βληθέντα ἀποθανεῖν, οἰκτίστῳ τέλει οὐδὲ ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη γεγονὼσ ἀπέθανεν, ὡσ Ποδαλειρίου υἱὸσ διασαπεὶσ τὸν πόδα μέχρι τοῦ βουβῶνοσ καὶ σκωλήκων ζέσασ· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 59:1)

Synonyms

  1. a thunderbolt

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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