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κιόκρανον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κιόκρανον κιόκρανου

Structure: κιοκραν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ki/wn, kra/nion

Sense

  1. the capital of a column

Declension

Second 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

  • βουλευομένων δὲ τί χρὴ ποιεῖν, πίπτει τὸ κιόκρανον ἀπό του κίονοσ οὔτε σεισμοῦ οὔτε ἀνέμου γενομένου. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 6:1)
  • καὶ τοῦτο δὲ τῶν πιστευομένων ἐστίν, ὅτι ἐν τῇ Κελτικῇ φύεται δένδρον ὅμοιον συκῇ, καρπὸν δ’ ἐκφέρει παραπλήσιον κιοκράνῳ κορινθιουργεῖ· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 4 12:14)

Synonyms

  1. the capital of a column

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

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