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κερκίς?

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration: kerkis

Principal Part: κερκίς κερκίδος

Structure: κερκιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: κρέκω

Sense

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

Declension

Third 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

  • 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

명사

형용사

동사

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

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