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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κῆτος κήτει κήτη
Genitive κήτους κήτοιν κητέων
Dative κήτει κήτοιν κήτεσιν*
Accusative κῆτος κήτει κήτη
Vocative κῆτος κήτει κήτη

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

  • ἀλλὰ καταράσαιτο αὐτὴν ὁ καταρώμενοσ τὴν ἡμέραν ἐκείνην, ὁ μέλλων τὸ μέγα κῆτοσ χειρώσασθαι. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 3:8)
  • ἰσχύϊ κατέπαυσε τὴν θάλασσαν, ἐπιστήμῃ δὲ ἔστρωσε τὸ κῆτοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 26:12)
  • ἐν δεξιᾷ μὲν οὖν εἰσιόντι Ἀργολικῷ μύθῳ ἀναμέμικται πάθοσ Αἰθιοπικὸν ὁ Περσεὺσ τὸ κῆτοσ φονεύει καὶ τὴν Ἀνδρομέδαν καθαιρεῖ, καὶ μετὰ μικρὸν γαμήσει καὶ ἄπεισιν αὐτὴν ἄγων πάρεργον τοῦτο τῆσ ἐπὶ Γοργόνασ πτήσεωσ. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 22:1)
  • Τὸ κῆτοσ ὑμῶν, ὦ Νηρηίδεσ, ὃ ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ Κηφέωσ θυγατέρα τὴν Ἀνδρομέδαν ἐπέμψατε, οὔτε τὴν παῖδα ἠδίκησεν, ὡσ οἰέσθε, καὶ αὐτὸ ἤδη τέθνηκεν. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton and nhrides, chapter 11)
  • Οὗτοσ ἀπέκτεινε τὸ κῆτοσ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton and nhrides, chapter 1 1:7)

Synonyms

  1. whale

  2. abyss

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