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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

  • αὐτίκα γᾶ πᾶσα χορεύσει‐‐ Βρόμιοσ ὅστισ ἄγῃ θιάσουσ‐‐ εἰσ ὄροσ εἰσ ὄροσ, ἔνθα μένει θηλυγενὴσ ὄχλοσ ἀφ’ ἱστῶν παρὰ κερκίδων τ’ οἰστρηθεὶσ Διονύσῳ. (Euripides, choral, strophe 24)
  • παρὰ δὲ κυανεᾶν πελάγει διδύμασ ἁλὸσ ἀκταὶ Βοσπόριαι ἥδ’ ὁ Θρῃκῶν ἄξενοσ Σαλμυδησσόσ, ἵν’ ἀγχίπτολισ Ἄρησ δισσοῖσι Φινείδαισ εἶδεν ἀρατὸν ἕλκοσ τυφλωθὲν ἐξ ἀγρίασ δάμαρτοσ ἀλαὸν ἀλαστόροισιν ὀμμάτων κύκλοισ ἀραχθέντων, ὑφ’ αἱματηραῖσ χείρεσσι καὶ κερκίδων ἀκμαῖσιν. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 21)
  • εἴσ τινα μίαν οἴκησιν συμφορήσαντεσ, τὸ λεγόμενον, πάντα χρήματα, παρέδομεν ταῖσ γυναιξὶν διαταμιεύειν τε καὶ κερκίδων ἄρχειν καὶ πάσησ ταλασίασ. (Plato, Laws, book 7 110:3)

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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