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κλωστήρ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κλωστήρ κλωστῆρος

Structure: κλωστηρ (Stem)

Etym.: klw/qw

Sense

  1. a spindle
  2. a thread, yarn, line, thread

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κλωστήρ κλωστῆρε κλωστῆρες
Genitive κλωστῆρος κλωστήροιν κλωστήρων
Dative κλωστῆρι κλωστήροιν κλωστῆρσιν*
Accusative κλωστῆρα κλωστῆρε κλωστῆρας
Vocative κλωστήρ κλωστῆρε κλωστῆρες

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

  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἁ τάλαινα προσέχουσ’ ἔτυχον ἐμαυτῆσ ἔργοισι, λίνου μεστὸν ἄτρακτον εἱειειειλίσσουσα χεροῖν κλωστῆρα ποιοῦσ’, ὅπωσ κνεφαῖοσ εἰσ ἀγορὰν φέρουσ’ ἀποδοίμαν· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric11)
  • φελλοὶ δ’ ὣσ ἄγουσι δίκτυον, τὸν ἐκ βυθοῦ κλωστῆρα σῴζοντεσ λίνου. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode19)
  • οἱο͂ν ὅτε κλωστῆρα γυνὴ ταλαεργὸσ ἑλίσσει ἐννυχίη· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 17:7)

Synonyms

  1. a spindle

  2. a thread

Similar forms

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

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