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κοντός

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοντός κοντοῦ

Structure: κοντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pole, punting-pole, boat-hook, the shaft

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

  • οὔτε γὰρ κοντοὶ κατὰ τοῦ πηλοῦ δύνοντεσ αὐτοῖσ οὐδέν τι ἐπωφέλεον, ἀνθρώποισ τε ἐκβῆναι τοῦ ἀπῶσαι τὰσ νέασ ἐσ τὰ πλεόμενα ἄπορον ἐγίνετο· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 41 4:1)
  • ἐξ ἑκατέρου δὲ τοῦ μέρουσ τῆσ πρώρρασ ἀγκύλαι δύο παρέκειντο παρὰ τὴν ἐντὸσ ἐπιφάνειαν τῶν τοίχων, εἰσ ἃσ ἐνηρμόζοντο κοντοὶ προτείνοντεσ τοῖσ κέρασιν εἰσ θάλατταν. (Polybius, Histories, book 21, chapter 7 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a pole

Related

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

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