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κηλίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κηλίς κηλῖδος

Structure: κηλιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a stain, spot, defilement
  2. a stain, blemish, dishonour

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

  • εἴπερ γε κηλὶσ ἔβαλέ νιν μητροκτόνοσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode57)
  • πόθον μὲν εἶναι Ἀλεξάνδρῳ ἐκπεριπλῶσαι τὴν θάλασσαν τὴν ἀπὸ Ἰνδῶν ἔστε ἐπὶ τὴν Περσικήν, ὀκνέειν δὲ αὐτὸν τοῦ τε πλόου τὸ μῆκοσ καὶ μή τινι ἄρα χώρῃ ἐρήμῃ ἐγκύρσασ ἢ ὁρ́μων ἀπόρῳ ἢ οὐ συμμέτρωσ ἐχούσῃ τῶν ὡρέων, οὕτω δὴ διαφθαρῇ αὐτῷ ὁ στόλοσ, καὶ οὐ φαύλη κηλὶσ αὕτη τοῖσιν ἔργοισιν αὐτοῦ τοῖσι μεγάλοισιν ἐπιγενομένη τὴν πᾶσαν εὐτυχίην αὐτῷ ἀφανίσῃ· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 20 1:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τῶν Ἰνδῶν οἱ μαχιμώτατοι μισθοφοροῦντεσ ἐπεφοίτων ταῖσ πόλεσιν ἐρρωμένωσ ἀμύνοντεσ καὶ πολλὰ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον ἐκακοποίουν, σπεισάμενοσ ἔν τινι πόλει πρὸσ αὐτούσ ἀπιόντασ ἐν ὁδῷ λαβὼν ἅπαντασ ἀπέκτεινε, καὶ τοῦτο τοῖσ πολεμικοῖσ ἔργοισ αὐτοῦ, τὰ ἄλλα νομίμωσ καὶ βασιλικῶσ πολεμήσαντοσ, ὥσπερ κηλὶσ πρόσεστιν. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 59 3:3)
  • πλὴν οὔτε κηλὶσ ἐξήνθησε τοῦ σώματοσ οὔτε ἄλλο φαρμάκου σημεῖον. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 86 2:4)
  • καὶ χιτωνίσκον παχὺν καὶ ἱμάτιον σφόδρα λεπτὸν καὶ κηλίδων μεστὸν ἀναβαλόμενοσ εἰσ ἀγορὰν ἐξελθεῖν. (Theophrastus, Characters, 7:1)
  • πῶσ σ’ ἂν ἄθλιοσ γεγὼσ θιγεῖν θελήσαιμ’ ἀνδρόσ, ᾧ τίσ οὐκ ἔνι κηλὶσ κακῶν ξύνοικοσ; (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode30)

Synonyms

  1. a stain

  2. a stain

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

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