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κῆτος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κῆτος κήτους

Structure: κητο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. whale, sea monster
  2. abyss

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

  • τούτων μετεξέτερα τῶν κητέων ἐποκέλλειν πολλαχοῦ τῆσ χώρησ, ἐπειδὰν ἀνάπωτισ κατάσχῃ, ἐν τοῖσι βραχέσιν ἐχόμενα, τὰ δὲ καὶ ὑπὸ χειμώνων σκληρῶν ἐσ τὴν χέρσον ἐξωθέεσθαι, καὶ οὕτω δὴ κατασηπόμενα ἀπόλλυσθαί τε καὶ τὰσ σάρκασ αὐτοῖσι περιρρεούσασ ὑπολείπειν τὰ ὀστέα χρᾶσθαι τοῖσιν ἀνθρώποισιν ἐσ τὰ οἰκία. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 30 8:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ αὕτωσ ἔχει καὶ περὶ τῶν κητέων ἁπάντων, ὀρύγων τε καὶ φαλαινῶν καὶ φυσητήρων, ὧν ἀναφυσησάντων φαίνεταί τισ νεφώδουσ ὄψισ κίονοσ τοῖσ πόρρωθεν ἀφορῶσι· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 14:3)

Synonyms

  1. whale

  2. abyss

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