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κημός

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κημός κημοῦ

Structure: κημ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a muzzle
  2. the funnel-shaped top

Declension

Second 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

  • μὴ γίνεσθε ὡσ ἵπποσ καὶ ἡμίονοσ, οἷσ οὐκ ἔστι σύνεσισ, ἐν κημῷ καὶ χαλινῷ τὰσ σιαγόνασ αὐτῶν ἄγξαισ τῶν μὴ ἐγγιζόντων πρὸσ σέ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 31:9)
  • καὶ ἤκουσαν κατ’ αὐτοῦ ἔθνη, ἐν τῇ διαφθορᾷ αὐτῶν συνελήφθη, καὶ ἤγαγον αὐτὸν ἐν κημῷ εἰσ γῆν Αἰγύπτου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 19:4)
  • καὶ ἔθεντο αὐτὸν ἐν κημῷ καὶ ἐν γαλεάγρᾳ, ἦλθε πρὸσ βασιλέα Βαβυλῶνοσ, καὶ εἰσήγαγεν αὐτὸν εἰσ φυλακήν, ὅπωσ μὴ ἀκουσθῇ ἡ φωνὴ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη τοῦ Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 19:9)
  • οὐ χοροῖσιν οὐδ’ ὑφ’ ἡλίκων νεανίδων κημὸν ἕστηκ’ ἔχουσ’, ἀλλ’ ἐν πυκνοῖσ δεσμοῖσιν ἐμπεπλεγμένη κήτει βορὰ Γλαυκέτῃ πρόκειμαι, γαμηλίῳ μὲν οὐ ξὺν παιῶνι δεσμίῳ δὲ γοᾶσθέ μ’ ὦ γυναῖκεσ, ὡσ μέλεα μὲν πέπονθα μέλεοσ, ὦ τάλασ ἐγὼ τάλασ, ἀπὸ δὲ συγγόνων τάλαν’ ἄνομα πάθεα, φῶτά <τε> λιτομέναν, πολυδάκρυτον Αἴδα γόον φεύγουσαν αἰαῖ αἰαῖ ἒ ἒ, ὃσ ἔμ’ ἀπεξύρησε πρῶτον, ὃσ ἐμὲ κροκόεντ’ ἐνέδυσεν· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, lyric8)
  • ἔπειτ’ ἀναγκάζω πάλιν ἐξεμεῖν ἅττ’ ἂν κεκλόφωσί μου, κημὸν καταμηλῶν. (Aristotle, Choral, antistrophe 23)
  • καὶ νὴ Δί’ ἢν ἴδῃ γέ που γεγραμμένον υἱὸν Πυριλάμπουσ ἐν θύρᾳ Δῆμον καλόν, ἰὼν παρέγραψε πλησίον "κημὸσ καλόσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 3:9)
  • ἁνία γὰρ καὶ κημόσ, ὃ τ’ εὐόρνιθι Τανάγρᾳ οἰωνὸσ βλαστῶν, θοῦροσ ἐγερσιμάχασ, οὐχ ἅδεν οὐδ’ ἐπέοικεν ὑπωροφίαισι γυναιξίν, ἀλλὰ τὰ τ’ ἠλακάτασ ἔργα τὰ θ’ ἱστοπόδων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 4242)
  • ὁ γὰρ κημὸσ ἀναπνεῖν μὲν οὐ κωλύει, δάκνειν δὲ οὐκ ἐᾷ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 4:3)
  • ἦν δὲ κημόσ· (Polybius, Histories, book 21, chapter 7 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a muzzle

  2. the funnel-shaped top

Related

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

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