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κιγκλίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κιγκλίς κιγκλίδος

Structure: κιγκλιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the latticed gates, waitings at the bar, the law's delays, in court

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

  • ὅτε δῆτα ταύταισ ταῖσ τελεταῖσ οὐκ ὠφέλει, διέπλευσεν εἰσ Αἴγιναν, εἶτα ξυλλαβὼν νύκτωρ κατέκλινεν αὐτὸν εἰσ Ἀσκληπιοῦ, ὁ δ’ ἀνεφάνη κνεφαῖοσ ἐπὶ τῇ κιγκλίδι. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 3:21)
  • κἄν ἔγρῃ μεσημβρινόσ, οὐδείσ σ’ ἀποκλῄσει θεσμοθέτησ τῇ κιγκλίδι. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode17)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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