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κηρίον?

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration: kērion

Principal Part: κηρίον κηρίου

Structure: κηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: κηρός

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

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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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