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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

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

  • ἄμεινον μὲν ἦν, ὦ πάτερ, ἐν Δελφοῖσ ἢ Κολοφῶνι τὰ τοιαῦτα ποιεῖν, ἁπάντων μοι τῶν χρησίμων παρόντων, ὡσ ἔθοσ. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 30:7)
  • εἰσ τὰσ Ὁμηρικὰσ δύο βίβλουσ υἱὲ Μέλητοσ Ὅμημε, σὺ γὰρ κλέοσ Ἑλλάδι πάσῃ καὶ Κολοφῶνι πάτρῃ θῆκασ ἐσ ἀΐδιον, καὶ τάσδ’ ἀντιθέῳ ψυχῇ γεννήσαο κούρασ, δισσὰσ ἐκ στηθέων γραψάμενοσ σελίδασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2921)
  • πάντωσ γάρ που καὶ αὐτὸσ ἂν ἐπὶ ἁλούσῃ Κολοφῶνι ὠδύρατο. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 9 12:4)
  • Ιὤνεσ δὲ ὁρ́κουσ ποιησάμενοι πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐν Κολοφῶνι Ἕλληνασ συνεπολιτεύοντο, οὐδὲν ἔχοντεσ πλέον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 3 4:1)
  • Ἄλεντοσ δὲ τοῦ ἐν Κολοφῶνι καὶ ἐλεγείων ποιηταὶ τὴν ψυχρότητα ᾄδουσι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 28 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. a summit

  2. a type of playing ball

  3. jackdaw

  4. a type of sea-fish

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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