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κηρίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κηρίον κηρίου

Structure: κηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: khro/s

Sense

  1. a honeycomb
  2. a wax tablet

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

  • κηρία μέλιτοσ λόγοι καλοί, γλύκασμα δὲ αὐτοῦ ἴασισ ψυχῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 16:20)
  • ἐρομένῳ δέ τινι εἰ καὶ αὐτὸσ πλακοῦντασ ἐσθίοι, Οἰεί οὖν, ἔφη, τοῖσ μωροῖσ τὰσ μελίσσασ τιθέναι τὰ κηρία; (Lucian, (no name) 52:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ ὁπότ’ ἐν σμήνεσσι κατηρεφέεσσι μέλισσαι κηφῆνασ βόσκωσι, κακῶν ξυνήονασ ἔργων ‐ αἳ μέν τε πρόπαν ἦμαρ ἐσ ἠέλιον καταδύντα ἠμάτιαι σπεύδουσι τιθεῖσί τε κηρία λευκά, οἳ δ’ ἔντοσθε μένοντεσ ἐπηρεφέασ κατὰ σίμβλουσ ἀλλότριον κάματον σφετέρην ἐσ γαστέρ’ ἀμῶνται ‐ ὣσ δ’ αὔτωσ ἄνδρεσσι κακὸν θνητοῖσι γυναῖκασ Ζεὺσ ὑψιβρεμέτησ θῆκεν, ξυνήονασ ἔργων ἀργαλέων· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 57:2)
  • τὰ κηρία κόμιζε, τοὺσ θαλλοὺσ καθίστη πλησίον, καὶ τὼ τρίποδ’ ἐξένεγκε καὶ τὴν λήκυθον. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode6)
  • διὸ καὶ τὸ καλούμενον νέκταρ κατασκευάζειν τινὰσ περὶ τὸν Λυδίασ Ὄλυμπον οἶνον καὶ κηρία συγκιρνάντασ εἰσ ταὐτὰ καὶ τὰ τῶν ἀνθῶν εὐώδη, οἶδα δ’ ὅτι Ἀναξανδρίδησ τὸ νέκταρ οὐ ποτόν, ἀλλὰ τροφὴν εἶναι λέγει θεῶν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 82)

Synonyms

  1. a wax tablet

Related

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

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