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κεροίαξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεροίαξ κεροίακος

Structure: κεροιακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a rope belonging to the sailyards

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

  • Ἀτάρ, ὦ Σάμιππε, νῦν ἀνεμνήσθην, ὁπόθεν ἡμῶν ἀπελείφθη Ἀδείμαντοσ, ὅτε παρὰ τὸν ἱστὸν ἐπὶ πολὺ ἔστημεν ἀναβλέποντεσ, ἀριθμοῦντεσ τῶν βυρσῶν τὰσ ἐπιβολὰσ καὶ θαυμάζοντεσ ἀνιόντα τὸν ναύτην διὰ τῶν κάλων, εἶτα ἐπὶ τῆσ κεραίασ ἄνω ἀσφαλῶσ διαθέοντα τῶν κεροιάκων ἐπειλημμένον. (Lucian, 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. a rope belonging to the sailyards

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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