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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

  • οὐκ Ἰδαίοισ ἱστοῖσ κερκίδα δινεύουσ’ ἐξαλλάξω. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 22)
  • καὶ πῶσ ἂν ἔτι γένοιτ’ ἂν εὔτακτοσ πόλισ, ὅπου θεὸσ γυνὴ γεγονυῖα πανοπλίαν ἕστηκ’ ἔχουσα, Κλεισθένησ δὲ κερκίδα; (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene29)
  • αὐτὰρ ὁ μέσσην κερκίδα καὶ μυῶνα, πέριξ ὀδύνῃσιν ἑλιχθείσ, σάρκα δακὼν ἐχάραξεν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 24:19)
  • ἁ δὲ πολυσπαθέων μελεδήμονα κερκίδα πέπλων εὔθροον ἁ τριτάτα δ’ εἰροχαρῆ τάλαρον οἷσ ἔσχον· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 39 1:1)
  • κερκίδα τὴν φιλαοιδὸν Ἀθηναίῃ θέτο Βιττὼ ἄνθεμα, λιμηρῆσ ἄρμενον ἐργασίησ, εἶπε δέ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 471)

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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