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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

  • ἀμφὶ δὲ πάντη κίοσιν ἀργυρέοισι πρὸσ οὐρανὸν ἐστήρικται. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 74:3)
  • ‐ εἴδετε λάινα κίοσιν ἔμβολα διάδρομα τάδε; (Euripides, episode, lyric5)
  • περὶ δὲ δεσμὰ καὶ πολύβροχ’ ἁμμάτων ἐρείσμαθ’ Ἡράκλειον ἀμφὶ δέμασ τάδε λαί̈νοισ ἀνημμένα κίοσιν οἴκων. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, lyric13)
  • ἀλλ’ ἀπιόντασ ἐν τῷ ξυστῷ ταῦτα καὶ ταῖσ παλαίστραισ διαλέγεσθαι τοῖσ ἀθληταῖσ, οὓσ τῶν βιβλίων ἐξελόντεσ ἀεὶ διημερεύειν ἐν σκώμμασι καὶ βωμολοχίαισ ἐθίζοντεσ, ὡσ ὁ κομψὸσ Ἀρίστων ἔλεγε, τοῖσ ἐν γυμνασίῳ κίοσιν ὁμοίωσ λιπαροὺσ πεποιήκασι καὶ λιθίνουσ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 20 10:1)
  • ἐμῆσ ἐρικυδέοσ αὐλῆσ κίοσιν οὐ κατὰ κόσμον ἀγάλλεαι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 753)

Synonyms

  1. pillar

  2. the uvula

  3. the division of the nostrils

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