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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

  • καὶ εἴ γε μὴ τὸν Ῥοδίων κολοσσὸν ἐθεασάμην καὶ τὸν ἐπὶ τῇ Φάρῳ πύργον, εὖ ἴσθι, παντελῶσ ἄν με ἡ γῆ διέλαθε. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 12:2)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν ἀμφὶ τὸν Ιὤνα καὶ τὸν Δεινόμαχον καὶ τὸν Κλεόδημον κεχηνότεσ ἀτενὲσ προσεῖχον αὐτῷ, γέροντεσ ἄνδρεσ ἑλκόμενοι τῆσ ῥινόσ, ἠρέμα προσκυνοῦντεσ οὕτωσ ἀπίθανον κολοσσόν, ἡμισταδιαίαν γυναῖκα, γιγάντειόν τι μορμολύκειον. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 21:1)
  • οὐκ ἂν δυναίμην εἰσορῶν χαλκήλατον μέγαν κολοσσὸν φάκινον ἄρτον ἐσθίειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 48 1:1)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ τὸν κολοσσὸν τοῦ Ἡρακλέουσ μετακομίσασ ἐκ Τάραντοσ ἔστησεν ἐν Καπιτωλίῳ, καὶ πλησίον ἔφιππον εἰκόνα χαλκῆν ἑαυτοῦ, πολὺ Μαρκέλλου φανεὶσ ἀτοπώτεροσ περὶ ταῦτα, μᾶλλον δ’ ὅλωσ ἐκεῖνον ἄνδρα πρᾳότητι καὶ φιλανθρωπίᾳ θαυμαστὸν ἀποδείξασ, ὡσ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ ἐκείνου γέγραπται. (Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, chapter 22 6:1)
  • Πτολεμαῖοσ δ’ ὁ Σωτὴρ ὄναρ εἶδε τὸν ἐν Σινώπῃ τοῦ Πλούτωνοσ κολοσσόν, οὐκ ἐπιστάμενοσ οὐδ’ ἑωρακὼσ πρότερον οἱο͂σ τὴν μορφὴν ἦν, κελεύοντα κομίσαι τὴν ταχίστην αὐτὸν εἰσ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 281)

Synonyms

  1. Giant statue

  2. Any statue

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