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κίμβιξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κίμβιξ κίμβικος

Structure: κιμβικ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a niggard

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κίμβιξ κίμβικε κίμβικες
Genitive κίμβικος κιμβίκοιν κιμβίκων
Dative κίμβικι κιμβίκοιν κίμβιξιν*
Accusative κίμβικα κίμβικε κίμβικας
Vocative κίμβιξ κίμβικε κίμβικες

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

  • ὅθεν Ξενοφάνησ κίμβικα αὐτὸν προσαγορεύει. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 66)
  • "ὁ γὰρ τῷ πάνυ πλουσίῳ τοὺσ δανειστὰσ ἐπάξειν λέγων, ἢ τὸν ὑδροπότην καὶ σώφρονα παροινεῖν καὶ μεθύειν, ἢ τὸν εὐδάπανον καὶ μεγαλοπρεπῆ καὶ χαριστικὸν κίμβικα καὶ κυμινοπρίστην προσαγορεύων, ἢ τὸν ἐν συνηγορίαισ καὶ πολιτείαισ μέγαν ἀπειλῶν ἐν ἀγορᾷ λήψεσθαι, διάχυσιν καὶ μειδίαμα παρέσχεν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 10:11)

Synonyms

  1. a niggard

Similar forms

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

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