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κολοσσός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κολοσσός κολοσσοῦ

Structure: κολοσς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. Giant statue
  2. Any statue

Declension

Second 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

  • αἱ πόλεισ δήπουθεν, ὅταν ἔκδοσιν ναῶν ἢ κολοσσῶν προγράφωσιν, ἀκροῶνται τῶν τεχνιτῶν ἁμιλλωμένων περὶ τῆσ ἐργολαβίασ καὶ λόγουσ καὶ παραδείγματα κομιζόντων εἶθ’ αἱροῦνται τὸν ἀπ’ ἐλάττονοσ δαπάνησ ταὐτὸ ποιοῦντα καὶ βέλτιον ον καὶ τάχιον. (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 31)
  • αἱ πόλεισ δήπουθεν, ὅταν ἔκδοσιν ναῶν ἢ κολοσσῶν προγράφωσιν, ἀκροῶνται τῶν τεχνιτῶν ἁμιλλωμένων περὶ τῆσ ἐργολαβίασ καὶ λόγουσ καὶ παραδείγματα κομιζόντων εἶθ’ αἱροῦνται τὸν ἀπ’ ἐλάττονοσ δαπάνησ ταὐτὸ ποιοῦντα καὶ βέλτιον καὶ τάχιον. (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 31)
  • εὐμόρφων δὲ κολοσσῶν ἔχθεται χάρισ ἀνδρί· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 2 1:6)
  • οἳ δὲ τινὲσ λέγουσι περὶ τῆσ βοὸσ ταύτησ καὶ τῶν κολοσσῶν τόνδε τὸν λόγον, ὡσ Μυκερῖνοσ ἠράσθη τῆσ ἑωυτοῦ θυγατρὸσ καὶ ἔπειτα ἐμίγη οἱ ἀεκούσῃ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 131 2:1)
  • ταῦτα δὲ λέγουσι φλυηρέοντεσ, ὡσ ἐγὼ δοκέω, τά τε ἄλλα καὶ δὴ καὶ τὰ περὶ τὰσ χεῖρασ τῶν κολοσσῶν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 131 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. Giant statue

  2. Any statue

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