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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

  • οἱ μὲν δὴ ἔξω ἄνθρωποι τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο ζηλοῦσί σε ὁρῶντεσ ἐντὸσ τῆσ κιγκλίδοσ διατρίβοντα καὶ ἀκωλύτωσ εἰσιόντα καὶ τῶν πάνυ τινὰ ἔνδον γεγενημένον σὺ δὲ αὐτὸσ οὐδέπω ὁρᾷσ οὗτινοσ ἕνεκα εὐδαίμων αὐτοῖσ εἶναι δοκεῖσ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 21:3)
  • τὸ τὴν βουλὴν τοὺσ πεντακοσίουσ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἀσθενοῦσ τοιαυτησὶ κιγκλίδοσ τῶν ἀπορρήτων κυρίαν εἶναι, καὶ μὴ τοὺσ ἰδιώτασ ἐπεισιέναι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 28:2)

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

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