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κῆρ

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κῆρ κῆρος

Structure: κηρ (Stem)

Etym.: contr. from ke/ar, as h)=r from e)/ar

Sense

  1. heart
  2. The seat of the will
  3. The seat of the passions

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

  • πῶσ γὰρ ἂν νοσῶν ἀνὴρ κῶλον παλαιᾷ κηρὶ προσβαίη μακράν; (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 2:17)
  • αὔτωσ δ’ Ἄρητοσ μενεδήιον Εὐρύτου υἱᾶ Ἴφιτον ἀζαλέῃ κορύνῃ στυφέλιξεν ἐλάσσασ, οὔπω κηρὶ κακῇ πεπρωμένον· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 2:33)
  • λίσσομ’ ὑπὲρ μακάρων σέο τ’ αὐτῆσ ἠδὲ τοκήων, μή σφε κακῇ ὑπὸ κηρὶ διαρραισθέντασ ἰδέσθαι λευγαλέωσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 12:21)
  • στασῶ δ’ ὀκτὼ μὲν γαυλὼσ τῷ Πανὶ γάλακτοσ, ὀκτὼ δὲ σκαφίδασ μέλιτοσ πλέα κηρί’ ἐχοίσασ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 51)
  • Ἀνδροθέᾳ δῶρον ὁ Φωκεὺσ κρατερᾶσ μηδοσύνασ ἦρα τίνων Ἀθάνᾳ ὠπασ1’ Ἐπειὸσ πέλεκυν, τῷ ποκὰ πύργων θεοτεύκτων κατέρειψεν αἶποσ, τᾶμοσ, ἐπεὶ τὰν ἱερὰν κηρὶ πυρίπνῳ πόλιν ᾐθάλωσεν Δαρδανιδᾶν, χρυσοβαφεῖσ τ’ ἐστυφέλιξ’ ἐκ θεμέθλων ἄνακτασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 22 2:4)
  • διὰ τοῦτο γοῦν τοὺσ ὑπεροχωτάτουσ τῶν ἡρώων καὶ φύντασ ἀπὸ θεῶν πρὸ γήρωσἐκλιπόντασ τὸν βίον οἱ ποιηταὶ παρέδοσαν ἡμῖν, ὥσπερ κἀκεῖνον ὃν περὶ κῆρι φίλει Ζεὺσ τ’ αἰγίοχοσ καὶ Ἀπόλλων παντοίην φιλότητ’, οὐδ’ ἵκετο γήραοσ; (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 17 3:1)
  • ὑμῖν δὲ νεμεσσῶμαι περὶ κῆρι καὶ Πάνδαρε, ποῦ τοι τόξον ἰδὲ πτερόεντεσ ὀιστοὶ καὶ κλέοσ, ᾧ οὒ τίσ τοι ἐρίζεται ἐνθάδε γ’ ἀνήρ; (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 33 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. heart

  2. The seat of the will

  3. The seat of the passions

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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