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κνῆσμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κνῆσμα κνῆσματος

Structure: κνησματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. a sting, bite

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

  • κέντρα τ’ ἐναιμήεντα διωξίπποιο μύωποσ, καὶ πριστὸν ψήκτρασ κνῆσμα σιδηρόδετον, διπλοῖσ ἀιόνων ὠρύγμασιν, Ἴσθμιε, τερφθείσ, δῶρα, Πόσειδον, ἔχεισ ταῦτα παρὰ Στρατίου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 233 1:1)
  • καὶ ὁ Σωκράτησ, φεῦ, ἔφη, ταῦτ’ ἄρα, ἔφη, ἐγὼ ὥσπερ ὑπὸ θηρίου τινὸσ δεδηγμένοσ τόν τε ὦμον πλεῖν ἢ πέντε ἡμέρασ ὤδαξον καὶ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὥσπερ κνῆσμά τι ἐδόκουν ἔχειν. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 4 29:1)

Synonyms

  1. a sting

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

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