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κέστρα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κέστρα

Structure: κεστρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: kente/w

Sense

  1. a fish

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κέστρα κέστρᾱ κέστραι
Genitive κέστρᾱς κέστραιν κεστρῶν
Dative κέστρᾱͅ κέστραιν κέστραις
Accusative κέστρᾱν κέστρᾱ κέστρᾱς
Vocative κέστρᾱ κέστρᾱ κέστραι

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

  • Ἀντιφάνησ δ’ ἐν Κύκλωπι ὑπερακοντίζων τὸν τένθην Ἀρχέστρατόν φησιν ἔστω δ’ ἡμῖν κεστρεὺσ τμητόσ, νάρκη πνικτή, πέρκη σχιστή, τευθὶσ σακτή, συνόδων ὀπτόσ, γλαύκου προτομή, γόγγρου κεφαλή, βατράχου γαστήρ, θύννου λαγόνεσ, βατίδοσ νῶτον, κέστρασ ὀσφύσ, ψητταρικίσκοσ, μαινίσ, καρίσ, τρίγλη, φυκίσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 46 1:4)
  • κομαρίδασ τε καὶ κύνασ, κέστρασ τε πέρκασ τ’ αἰόλασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1104)
  • Ἐπίχαρμοσ δ’ ἐν Μούσαισ κέστραν ὀνομάσασ οὐκ ἔτι σφυραίνασ ὀνομάζει ὡσ ταὐτὸν οὔσασ χαλκίδασ τε καὶ κύνασ κέστρασ τε πέρκασ τ’ αἰόλασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1224)
  • κέστρασ τε πέρκασ τ’ αἰόλασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 122 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a fish

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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