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κολοφών

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κολοφών κολοφῶνος

Structure: κολοφων (Stem)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a summit, top, finishing
  2. a type of playing ball
  3. (according to Hesychius) jackdaw, daw, grackle
  4. (according to Hesychius) a type of sea-fish

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κολοφών κολοφῶνε κολοφῶνες
Genitive κολοφῶνος κολοφώνοιν κολοφώνων
Dative κολοφῶνι κολοφώνοιν κολοφῶσιν*
Accusative κολοφῶνα κολοφῶνε κολοφῶνας
Vocative κολοφών κολοφῶνε κολοφῶνες

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

  • ἐοίκε δ’ ἡμᾶσ ἀπαλλάττειν τοῦ περὶ τούτων ἔτι πλείονα λέγειν ὁ κολοφὼν αὐτὸσ, ὃν ὁ Χρύσιπποσ τοῖσ δόγμασιν ἐπιτέθεικεν. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 121)
  • οὐχὶ πέδον Σμύρνησ ἐλοχεύσατο θεῖον Ὅμηρον, οὐ Κολοφὼν τρυφερῆσ ἄστρον Ιηὀνίησ, οὐ Χίοσ, οὐκ Αἴγυπτοσ ἐύσποροσ, οὐ Κύπροσ ἁγνή, οὐ νῆσοσ κραναὴ Λαρτιάδαο πάτρη, οὐκ Ἄργοσ Δαναοῖο, κυκλωπείη τε Μυκήνη, οὐδὲ τὸ Κεκροπιδῶν ἄστυ παλαιογόνων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2951)
  • ἑπτὰ ἐριδμαίνουσι πόλεισ διὰ ῥίζαν Ὁμήρου, Κύμη, Σμύρνα, Χίοσ, Κολοφών, Πύλοσ, Ἄργοσ, Ἀθῆναι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2971)
  • ἑπτὰ πόλεισ μάρναντο σοφὴν διὰ ῥίζαν Ὁμήρου, Σμύρνα, Χίοσ, Κολοφών, Ἰθάκη, Πύλοσ, Ἄργοσ, Ἀθῆναι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2981)
  • Κύμη δ’ ἢ Κολοφὼν πατρίσ, Ὅμηρε, σέθεν; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2995)

Synonyms

  1. a summit

  2. a type of playing ball

  3. jackdaw

  4. a type of sea-fish

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