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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

  • εἶτ’ ἀντ’ αὐτῶν κατέπινον κεστρᾶν τεμάχη μεγαλᾶν ἀγαθᾶν κρέα τ’ ὀρνίθεια κιχηλᾶν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parodos, anapests23)
  • "σφύραιναν, φησίν, ἣν καλοῦσι κέστραν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1223)
  • 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)
  • Σπεύσιπποσ δὲ ἐν δευτέρῳ Ὁμοίων ὡσ παραπλήσια ἐκτίθεται κέστραν, βελόνην, σαυρίδα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1226)
  • καὶ οἱ Ἀττικοὶ δὲ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ τὴν σφύραιναν καλοῦσι κέστραν, σπανίωσ δὲ τῷ τῆσ σφυραίνησ ὀνόματι ἐχρήσαντο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 122 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a fish

Related

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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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