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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

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

  • τὸ αὑτοῦ ἔργον, <καὶ> ὥσπερ τὰ Δαιδάλου φασὶν ἢ τοὺσ τοῦ Ἡφαίστου τρίποδασ, οὕσ φησιν ὁ ποιητὴσ αὐτομάτουσ θεῖον δύεσθαι ἀγῶνα, οὕτωσ αἱ κερκίδεσ ἐκέρκιζον αὐταὶ καὶ τὰ πλῆκτρα ἐκιθάριζεν, οὐδὲν ἂν ἔδει οὔτε τοῖσ ἀρχιτέκτοσιν ὑπηρετῶν οὔτε τοῖσ δεσπόταισ δούλων. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 40:1)

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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