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κίων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κίων κίονος

Structure: κιων (Stem)

Sense

  1. pillar, column
  2. a columnar gravestone
  3. the uvula
  4. the division of the nostrils, cartilage of the nose
  5. a type of meteor
  6. a type of wart

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

  • οἳ δὲ ταρβοῦντεσ φόβῳ ὤρουον ἄλλοσ ἄλλοσ’, ἐσ πέπλουσ ὁ μὲν μητρὸσ ταλαίνησ, ὁ δ’ ὑπὸ κίονοσ σκιάν, ἄλλοσ δὲ βωμὸν ὄρνισ ὣσ ἔπτηξ’ ὕπο. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 2:14)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐξελίσσων παῖδα κίονοσ κύκλῳ, τόρνευμα δεινὸν ποδόσ, ἐναντίον σταθεὶσ βάλλει πρὸσ ἧπαρ· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 3:1)
  • αὐτῆσ δὲ τῆσ Φρύνησ οἱ περικτίονεσ ἀνδριάντα ποιήσαντεσ ἀνέθηκαν ἐν Δελφοῖσ χρύσεον ἐπὶ κίονοσ Πεντελικοῦ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 59 4:3)
  • ἡ δὲ καλουμένη Πορκία βασιλικὴ τιμητικὸν ἦν ἀνάθημα τοῦ παλαιοῦ Κάτωνοσ, εἰωθότεσ οὖν ἐκεῖ χρηματίζειν οἱ δήμαρχοι, Καὶ κίονοσ τοῖσ δίφροισ ἐμποδὼν εἶναι δοκοῦντοσ, ἔγνωσαν ὑφελεῖν αὐτὸν ἢ μεταστῆσαι. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 5 1:1)
  • δείσασ δὲ αὐτούσ, εἰσελθὼν ὑπὸ τὴν σκιὰν καθέζεσθαι μεταξὺ τοῦ κίονοσ καὶ τῆσ στήλησ ἐφ’ ᾗ ὁ στρατηγόσ ἐστιν ὁ χαλκοῦσ. (Andocides, Speeches, 71:5)

Synonyms

  1. pillar

  2. the uvula

  3. the division of the nostrils

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