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κηφήν

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κηφήν κηφῆνος

Structure: κηφην (Stem)

Sense

  1. a drone, a drone, a lazy fellow

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κηφήν κηφῆνε κηφῆνες
Genitive κηφῆνος κηφήνοιν κηφήνων
Dative κηφῆνι κηφήνοιν κηφῆσιν*
Accusative κηφῆνα κηφῆνε κηφῆνας
Vocative κηφήν κηφῆνε κηφῆνες

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

  • τῷ δ’ ἁ τλάμων ποῦ πᾷ γαίασ δουλεύσω γραῦσ, ὡσ κηφήν, ἁ δειλαία, νεκροῦ μορφά, νεκύων ἀμενηνὸν ἄγαλμα, αἰαῖ τὰν παρὰ προθύροισ φυλακὰν κατέχουσ’ ἢ παίδων θρέπτειρ’, ἃ Τροίασ ἀρχαγοὺσ εἶχον τιμάσ; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, antistrophe 113)
  • οὐ μέντοι παῤ ἡμῖν τυχὸν οὐδείσ ἐστι κηφὴν ἀργόσ, βομβῶν σαθρόν, γευόμενοσ τοῦ μέλιτοσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 31:1)
  • εἰ δὲ κηφὴν εἶ ἐπιδικαζόμενοσ τῆσ βασιλείασ τῶν μελισσῶν, οὐ δοκεῖσ ὅτι καὶ σὲ καταβαλ[λ]οῦσιν οἱ συμπολιτευόμενοι, ὡσ αἱ μέλισσαι τοὺσ κηφῆνασ; (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 99:4)
  • βούλει οὖν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, φῶμεν αὐτόν, ὡσ ἐν κηρίῳ κηφὴν ἐγγίγνεται, σμήνουσ νόσημα, οὕτω καὶ τὸν τοιοῦτον ἐν οἰκίᾳ κηφῆνα ἐγγίγνεσθαι, νόσημα πόλεωσ; (Plato, Republic, book 8 176:1)
  • διαβαλλόντων, ἐπιχειροῦντα σφᾶσ ἀδικεῖν, τότ’ ἤδη, εἴτε βούλονται εἴτε μή, ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ὀλιγαρχικοὶ γίγνονται, οὐχ ἑκόντεσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτο τὸ κακὸν ἐκεῖνοσ ὁ κηφὴν ἐντίκτει κεντῶν αὐτούσ. (Plato, Republic, book 8 490:1)

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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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