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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

  • τὸ δ’ εἰσέφερε γραῦσ ἐν χύτρᾳ τὸ παιδίον, ἵνα μὴ βό η, κηρίῳ βεβυσμένον· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, strophe 2 1:28)
  • οὔτε γὰρ δόξησ χάριν οὔτε πλεονεξίασ οὔτε αὐτομάτωσ καὶ κατὰ τύχην, ὥσπερ ἕτεροί τινεσ, ἐμπεσὼν εἰσ τὸ πράττειν τὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἴδιον ἔργον ἀνδρὸσ ἀγαθοῦ τὴν πολιτείαν ἑλόμενοσ, μᾶλλον ᾤετο δεῖν προσέχειν τοῖσ κοινοῖσ ἢ τῷ κηρίῳ τὴν μέλιτταν, ὅσ γε καὶ τὰ τῶν ἐπαρχιῶν πράγματα καὶ δόγματα καὶ κρίσεισ καὶ πράξεισ τὰσ μεγίστασ ἔργον πεποίητο διὰ τῶν ἑκασταχόθι ξένων καὶ φίλων πέμπεσθαι πρὸσ αὐτόν. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 19 2:1)
  • βούλει οὖν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, φῶμεν αὐτόν, ὡσ ἐν κηρίῳ κηφὴν ἐγγίγνεται, σμήνουσ νόσημα, οὕτω καὶ τὸν τοιοῦτον ἐν οἰκίᾳ κηφῆνα ἐγγίγνεσθαι, νόσημα πόλεωσ; (Plato, Republic, book 8 176:1)
  • αὐτὸν δ’ ἀρκεῖσθαι μέλιτι μόνῳ φασί τινεσ ἢ κηρίῳ ἢ ἄρτῳ, οἴνου δὲ μεθ’ ἡμέραν μὴ γεύεσθαι· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, h, Kef. a'. PUQAGORAS 19:3)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλα κρίνεα ῥόδοισι ἐμφερέα, ἐν τῷ ποταμῷ γινόμενα καὶ ταῦτα, ἐξ ὧν ὁ καρπὸσ ἐν ἄλλῃ κάλυκι παραφυομένῃ ἐκ τῆσ ῥίζησ γίνεται, κηρίῳ σφηκῶν ἰδέην ὁμοιότατον· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 92 5:1)

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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