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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κερκίς κερκίδε κερκίδες
Genitive κερκίδος κερκίδοιν κερκίδων
Dative κερκίδι κερκίδοιν κερκίσι(ν)
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

  • 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

명사

형용사

동사

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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