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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

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

  • Αἰγείδη Θησεῦ, Πιτθηί̈δοσ ἔκγονε κούρησ, πολλαῖσ τοι πολίεσσι πατὴρ ἐμὸσ ἐγκατέθηκε τέρματα καὶ κλωστῆρασ ἐν ὑμετέρῳ πτολιέθρῳ. (Plutarch, chapter 24 5:1)
  • δμωαὶ δὲ ποδῶν προπάροιθε βαλοῦσαι νήματα καὶ κλωστῆρασ ἀολλέεσ ἔκτοθι πᾶσαι ἔδραμον. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 4:52)

Synonyms

  1. a spindle

  2. a thread

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

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