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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

  • ὀνομάτων καὶ τῶν πραγμάτων τὰ δραματικὰ καὶ πανηγυρικὰ κηφήνων βοτάνην σοφιστιώντων ἡγούμενον ἐᾶν, αὐτὸν δὲ τῇ προσοχῇ καταδυόμενον εἰσ τὸν νοῦν τοῦ λόγου καὶ τὴν διάθεσιν τοῦ λέγοντοσ ἕλκειν ἀπ’ αὐτῆσ τὸ χρήσιμον καὶ ὠφέλιμον, μεμνημένον ὡσ οὐκ εἰσ θέατρον οὐδ’ ᾠδεῖον ἀλλ’ εἰσ σχολὴν καὶ διδασκαλεῖον ἀφῖκται, τῷ λόγῳ τὸν βίον ἐπανορθωσόμενοσ. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 8 4:1)
  • καθαρὸν ἔστω σοι τὸ σμῆνοσ κηφήνων καὶ σφηκῶν. (Epictetus, Works, gnomologium epicteteum e( stobaei libris 1-2) 6:8)
  • πλούσιοι δὴ οἶμαι οἱ τοιοῦτοι καλοῦνται κηφήνων βοτάνη. (Plato, Republic, book 8 476:1)
  • Οἱ δὲ πλάττοντεσ Ἐρεμβοὺσ ἴδιόν τι ἔθνοσ Αἰθιοπικὸν καὶ ἄλλο Κηφήνων καὶ τρίτον Πυγμαίων καὶ ἄλλα μυρία ἧττον ἂν πιστεύοιντο, πρὸσ τῷ μὴ ἀξιοπίστῳ καὶ σύγχυσίν τινα ἐμφαίνοντεσ τοῦ μυθικοῦ καὶ ἱστορικοῦ σχήματοσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 70:1)

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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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