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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κηρίον κηρίω κηρία
Genitive κηρίου κηρίοιν κηρίων
Dative κηρίῳ κηρίοιν κηρίοις
Accusative κηρίον κηρίω κηρία
Vocative κηρίον κηρίω κηρία

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

  • ψυχὴ ἐν πλησμονῇ οὖσα κηρίοισ ἐμπαίζει, ψυχῇ δὲ ἐνδεεῖ καὶ τὰ πικρὰ γλυκέα φαίνεται. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 27:7)
  • τῶν δὲ στρατιωτῶν ἐπηκολούθησαν οἱ Κρῆτεσ, οὐ δι’ εὔνοιαν, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ χρήμασιν, ὥσπερ κηρίοισ μέλιτται, προσλιπαροῦντεσ. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 23 4:1)
  • "διαφύσεισ δ’ ἔνδοθεν ἔχει δι’ ὅλου διειλημμένασ ὁμοίασ τοῖσ κηρίοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 2 1:3)
  • καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἔνδον δ’ ἐξυφαινομένοισ κηρίοισ ἐφέστηκεν, ὡσ καλῶσ καὶ ταχέωσ ὑφαίνηται, καὶ τοῦ γιγνομένου τόκου ἐπιμελεῖται ὡσ ἐκτρέφηται· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 7 35:1)
  • δεῖ τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἰατρόν τε καὶ νομοθέτην πόλεωσ μὴ ἧττον ἢ σοφὸν μελιττουργὸν πόρρωθεν εὐλαβεῖσθαι, μάλιστα μὲν ὅπωσ μὴ ἐγγενήσεσθον, ἂν δὲ ἐγγένησθον, ὅπωσ ὅτι τάχιστα σὺν αὐτοῖσι τοῖσ κηρίοισ ἐκτετμήσεσθον. (Plato, Republic, book 8 458:1)

Synonyms

  1. a wax tablet

Related

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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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