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κερκίς

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κερκίς κερκίδος

Structure: κερκιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kre/kw

Sense

  1. the rod or comb
  2. any rod, a measuring-rod
  3. the great bone of the leg, the tibia

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κερκίς κερκίδε κερκίδες
Genitive κερκίδος κερκίδοιν κερκίδων
Dative κερκίδι κερκίδοιν κερκίσιν*
Accusative κερκίδα κερκίδε κερκίδας
Vocative κερκί κερκίδε κερκίδες

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

  • ἁπάσασ εἶπον, ἐξόχωσ δ’ ἐμέ, ἣ τὰσ παρ’ ἱστοῖσ ἐκλιποῦσα κερκίδασ ἐσ μείζον’ ἥκω, θῆρασ ἀγρεύειν χεροῖν. (Euripides, episode 2:6)
  • μετὰ τοῦτο δὴ τὰσ μὲν περί τε ἀτράκτουσ καὶ κερκίδασ καὶ ὁπόσα ἄλλα ὄργανα τῆσ περὶ τὰ ἀμφιέσματα γενέσεωσ κοινωνεῖ, πάσασ συναιτίουσ εἴπωμεν, τὰσ δὲ αὐτὰ θεραπευούσασ καὶ δημιουργούσασ αἰτίασ; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 149:3)
  • ἀλλὰ πόθεν τὰσ κερκίδασ ὑμῖν ἐπιβοῶσιν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 49:2)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰπόντοσ αὐτῇ, αὕτη ’στὶν ἡ τὰσ παρ’ ἱστοῖσ ἐκλιποῦσα κερκίδασ; (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. z'. IPPARXIA 3:1)
  • αὗται οὖν ὑπὸ τῶν πολιτῶν καλλίπυγοι ἐκαλοῦντο, ὡσ καὶ ὁ Μεγαλοπολίτησ Κερκιδᾶσ ἐν τοῖσ Ιἄμβοισ ἱστορεῖ λέγων ἦν καλλιπύγων ζεῦγοσ ἐν Συρακούσαισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 80 1:7)
  • Ἀρκάδασ Κερκιδᾶσ, Ιἑρώνυμοσ, Εὐκαμπίδασ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 417:2)

Synonyms

  1. the rod or comb

  2. any rod

  3. the great bone of the leg

Related

Similar forms

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

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