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κολυμβίς

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κολυμβίς κολυμβίδος

Structure: κολυμβιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from ko/lumbos

Sense

  1. a diver

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

  • κίττα τρυγὼν κορυδὸσ ἐλεᾶσ ὑποθυμὶσ περιστερὰ νέρτοσ ἱέραξ φάττα κόκκυξ ἐρυθρόπουσ κεβλήπυρισ πορφυρὶσ κερχνῂσ κολυμβὶσ ἀμπελὶσ φήην δρύοψ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parodos, lyric48)
  • ἔχουσι δὲ οἱ ἄρρενεσ σιμά τε καὶ ἐλάττονα τῇ συμμετρίᾳ τὰ ῥύγχη, ἡ δὲ μικρὰ κολυμβίσ, πάντων ἐλαχίστη τῶν ἐνύδρων, ῥυπαρομέλαινα τὴν χροιὰν καὶ τὸ ῥύγχοσ ὀξὺ ἔχει σκέπον τε τὰ ὄμματα, τὰ δὲ πολλὰ καταδύεται, ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλο γένοσ βοσκάδων μεῖζον μὲν νήττησ, ἔλαττον δὲ χηναλώπεκοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 52 1:2)
  • αἱ δὲ λεγόμεναι φασκάδεσ μικρῷ μείζονεσ οὖσαι τῶν μικρῶν κολυμβίδων τὰ λοιπὰ νήτταισ εἰσὶ παραπλήσιοι, ἡ δὲ λεγομένη οὐρία οὐ πολὺ λείπεται νήττησ, τῷ χρώματι δὲ ῥυπαροκέραμὸσ ἐστι, τὸ δὲ ῥύγχοσ μακρόν τε καὶ στενὸν ἔχει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 52 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. a diver

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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