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κλοπεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κλοπεύς κλοπέως

Structure: κλοπευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = klw/y

Sense

  1. a thief, stealer
  2. a secret doer, perpetrator

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

  • τὸ πρᾶγμα δ’ οὗπερ πορεύω βάδην, ἴσθι τὸν δαίμον’, ὅστισ ποθ’ ὃσ ταῦτ’ ἐτεχνήσατ’, οὐκ ἄλλοσ ἐστὶν κλοπεὺσ ἀντ’ ἐκείνου, γύναι, σάφ’ ἴσθι. (Sophocles, Ichneutae 27:2)
  • φιλεῖ δ’ ὁ θυμὸσ πρόσθεν, ᾑρῆσθαι κλοπεὺσ τῶν μηδὲν ὀρθῶσ ἐν σκότῳ τεχνωμένων· (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 3:13)
  • ἀλλ’ αὐτὸ τοῦτο δεῖ σοφισθῆναι, κλοπεὺσ ὅπωσ γενήσει τῶν ἀνικήτων ὅπλων. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 3:14)

Synonyms

  1. a thief

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

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