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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

  • νάσσασ, κολοιούσ, ἀτταγᾶσ, φαλαρίδασ, τροχίλουσ, κολύμβουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 52 2:3)
  • "τήγανον εὖ ἥψησεν ἐν ὀψητῆρι κολύμβῳ, τὴν λοπάδα τήγανον προσαγορεύων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1421)
  • "χαίρει δὲ καὶ νήξεσι παίδων καὶ κολύμβοισ ἁμιλλᾶται. (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 19 2:19)
  • καὶ γὰρ Ιὤν ὁρ́μῳ ἔνι κάππεσεν ἐσ δὲ κόλυμβον ναύτου τὰσ ταχινὰσ οἶνοσ ἔδησε χέρασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 822)
  • τούτῳ μουσικῆσ ἀγῶνα κατὰ ἔτοσ ἕκαστον ἄγουσι, καὶ ἁμίλλησ κολύμβου καὶ πλοίων τιθέασιν ἆθλα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 35 1:2)

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