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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

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

  • Ἤν δὲ καὶ εἵνεκεν ὁμίλου θέλῃσ ἀκρόασιν ποιήσασθαι, οὐκ ἀγακλεῶσ ἐπιθυμεῖσ, μὴ μέντοι γε μετὰ μαρτυρίησ ποιητικῆσ‧ ἀδυναμίην γὰρ ἐμφαίνει φιλοπονίησ‧ ἀπαρνέομαι γὰρ ἐσ χρῆσιν ἑτέρην φιλοπονίην μετὰ πόνου ἱστοριευμένην, διὸ ἐν ἑωυτῇ μούνῃ αἱρ́εσιν ἔχουσαν χαρίεσσαν‧ περιποιήσει γὰρ κηφῆνοσ μετὰ παραπομπῆσ ματαιοκοπίην. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, PARAGGELIAI, xii.1)
  • καὶ νὴ Δία, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, ὦ φίλε, τοῖσ πολλοῖσ γε αὐτῶν ἐνευρήσεισ, ὅταν δέῃ τἀλλότρια ἀναλίσκειν, τὰσ τοῦ κηφῆνοσ συγγενεῖσ ἐνούσασ ἐπιθυμίασ. (Plato, Republic, book 8 233:1)

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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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