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κλιμάκιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κλιμάκιον κλιμάκιου

Structure: κλιμακι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: kli=mac의 지소사, Ar.

Sense

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

  • ἡ δὲ μήτηρ ἐκείνησ ὑφεῖλκε κάτωθεν τὸ κλιμάκιον, εἶθ’ ἡμέρασ πάλιν προσετίθει φέρουσα. (Plutarch, Ad principem ineruditum, chapter, section 4 11:2)
  • ἔπειτα λεπτὰ κλιμάκια ποιούμενοσ, πρὸσ ταῦτ’ ἀνηρριχᾶτ’ ἂν ἐσ τὸν οὐρανόν, ἑώσ ξυνετρίβη τῆσ κεφαλῆσ καταρρυείσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue 2:15)
  • ἀναβῆναί τι πρὸσ κλιμάκιον Καπανεύσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 34 1:1)
  • τὸ δὲ κλιμάκιον ἡ τῆσ ἐρωμένησ μήτηρ ὑφαιροῦσα κατέκλειεν εἰσ ἕτερον οἴκημα, καὶ πάλιν ἅμ’ ἡμέρᾳ προσετίθει καὶ κατεκάλει τὸν θαυμαστὸν τύραννον, ὥσπερ ἑρπετὸν ἐκ φωλεοῦ κατερχόμενον. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 26 3:1)
  • καὶ κολοιῷ δὲ ἔνδον τρεφομένῳ δεινὸσ κλιμάκιον πρίασθαι καὶ ἀσπίδιον χαλκοῦν ποιῆσαι, ὃ ἔχων ἐπὶ τοῦ κλιμακίου ὁ κολοιὸσ πηδήσεται. (Theophrastus, Characters, 6:1)

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

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