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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

  • μεθύστερον δὲ κίρκον εἰσορῶ δρόμῳ πτεροῖσ ἐφορμαίνοντα καὶ χηλαῖσ κάρα τίλλονθ’· (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, iambics 2:5)
  • ἀλλ’ ἔνθεν ἐπὶ θεωρίαν, εἰσ μονομαχίαν, εἰσ ξυστόν, εἰσ κίρκον· (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 14:2)
  • τῶν δ’ ὥσ τε ψαρῶν νέφοσ ἔρχεται ἠὲ κολοιῶν οὖλον κεκλήγοντεσ, ὅτε προί̈δωσιν ἰόντα κίρκον, ὅ τε σμικρῇσι φόνον φέρει ὀρνίθεσσιν, ὣσ ἄρ’ ὑπ’ Αἰνείᾳ τε καὶ Ἕκτορι κοῦροι Ἀχαιῶν οὖλον κεκλήγοντεσ ἴσαν, λήθοντο δὲ χάρμησ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 17 79:12)

Synonyms

  1. type of hawk or falcon

  2. type of wolf

  3. circle

  4. type of stone

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