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κίρκος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κίρκος κίρκου

Structure: κιρκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. type of hawk or falcon
  2. type of wolf
  3. circle, ring
  4. racecourse, circus
  5. type of stone

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

  • οἱ δ’ ἐπτοημένοι φρένασ, κίρκοι πελειῶν οὐ μακρὰν λελειμμένοι, ἥξουσι θηρεύοντεσ οὐ θηρασίμουσ γάμουσ, φθόνον δὲ σωμάτων ἕξει θεόσ· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, lyric 12:5)
  • Κόλχον δ’ ὄλεκον στόλον, ἠύτε κίρκοι φῦλα πελειάων, ἠὲ μέγα πῶυ λέοντεσ ἀγρότεροι κλονέουσιν ἐνὶ σταθμοῖσι θορόντεσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 9:2)
  • διὸ καὶ τῇ αἰσθήσει διαφέρει, ὡσ κίρκοι μὲν ὀξύτατοι, κύνεσ δ’ ὀσφρητικώτατοι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. ia'. PURRWN 20:2)

Synonyms

  1. type of hawk or falcon

  2. type of wolf

  3. circle

  4. type of stone

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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