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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κολοσσός κολοσσώ κολοσσοί
Genitive κολοσσοῦ κολοσσοῖν κολοσσῶν
Dative κολοσσῷ κολοσσοῖν κολοσσοῖς
Accusative κολοσσόν κολοσσώ κολοσσούς
Vocative κολοσσέ κολοσσώ κολοσσοί

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

  • σὺ δὲ τὰ ἔνδον ἤδη τοῦ κολοσσοῦ λέγε. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 25:3)
  • ἴδοισ γὰρ ἂν ἀφθόνουσ τοιούτουσ συγγραφέασ, τοῦ Ῥοδίου κολοσσοῦ τὴν κεφαλὴν ναννώδει σώματι ἐπιτιθέντασ· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 23 1:1)
  • μέγεθοσ δέ τῶν μέν ἀνθρώπων ὅσον τοῦ Ῥοδίων κολοσσοῦ ἐξ ἡμισείασ ἐσ τὸ ἄνω, τῶν δὲ ἵππων ὅσον νεώσ μεγάλησ φορτίδοσ. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 18:4)
  • οὔ μοι Πυραμίδων ἰκέλη κρίσισ, οὐδὲ Κολοσσοῦ, οὐδὲ Φάρου· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 656 3:2)
  • εἴτε δὲ ἀπὸ τῆσ βάσεωσ εἴτε ἀπὸ τοῦ κολοσσοῦ εἴτ’ ἐπίτηδεσ τῶν κύκλῳ καὶ περὶ τὴν βάσιν ἱδρυμένων τινὸσ ποιήσαντοσ τὸν ψόφον, οὐκ ἔχω διισχυρίσασθαι· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 91:12)

Synonyms

  1. Giant statue

  2. Any statue

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