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κευθμών

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κευθμών κευθμῶνος

Structure: κευθμων (Stem)

Etym.: keu/qw

Sense

  1. a hiding place, hole, corner, the hollows
  2. the abyss
  3. a sanctuary.

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

  • καὶ τῶν μὲν ὅπωσ τισ πρῶτα γένοιτο, πάντασ ἀποκρύπτασκε, καὶ ἐσ φάοσ οὐκ ἀνίεσκε, Γαίησ ἐν κευθμῶνι, κακῷ δ’ ἐπετέρπετο ἔργῳ Οὐρανόσ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 16:5)
  • διόπερ οὕτωσ εἰπεῖν ὑπολαμβάνουσι Στησίχορον περὶ τοῦ Γηρυόνοσ βουκόλου διότι γεννηθείη "σχεδὸν ἀντιπέρασ κλεινᾶσ "Ἐρυθείασ Ταρτησσοῦ ποταμοῦ παρὰ παγὰσ ἀπείρονασ ἀργυρορίζουσ, ἐν κευθμῶνι πέτρασ. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 22:5)
  • ἐτυμολογοῦσι δὲ τὸ ἐπίθετον τῆσ θεοῦ μῦθόν τινα προστησάμενοι, ὡσ ἐπιθεμένων ἐνταῦθα τῇ θεῷ τῶν γιγάντων ἐπικαλεσαμένη τὸν Ἡρακλέα κρύψειεν ἐν κευθμῶνί τινι, εἶτα τῶν γιγάντων ἕκαστον δεχομένη καθ’ ἕνα τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ παραδιδοίη δολοφονεῖν ἐξ ἀπάτησ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 2 14:7)

Synonyms

  1. a hiding place

  2. the abyss

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

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