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κόλυμβος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 이형 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόλυμβος κολύμβου

Structure: κολυμβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Alternative spelling of κολυμβίς ‎(kolumbís, “a diver, grebe”)
  2. Alternative spelling of κολύμβησις ‎(kolúmbēsis, “pearl fishing”)
  3. Alternative spelling of κολυμβήθρα ‎(kolumbḗthra, “place for swimming”)

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

  • τούτῳ μουσικῆσ ἀγῶνα κατὰ ἔτοσ ἕκαστον ἄγουσι, καὶ ἁμίλλησ κολύμβου καὶ πλοίων τιθέασιν ἆθλα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 35 1:2)
  • τῇ μέντοι παραλίᾳ παρεκτέταται μικρῷ τι πλέον τῶν διακοσίων σταδίων μῆκοσ ἐπιλαμβάνουσα, ἀγχιβαθήσ, βαρύτατον ἔχουσα ὕδωρ, ὥστε μὴ δεῖν κολύμβου, ἀλλὰ τὸν ἐμβάντα καὶ μέχρι ὀμφαλοῦ εὐθὺσ ἐξαίρεσθαι· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 83:3)
  • εἶτ’ ἐπιπολάζουσα διὰ τὴν φύσιν τοῦ ὕδατοσ, καθ’ ἣν ἔφαμεν μηδὲ κολύμβου δεῖσθαι, μηδὲ βαπτίζεσθαι τὸν ἐμβάντα ἀλλ’ ἐξαίρεσθαι· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 83:10)

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