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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

  • καὶ ἐξελεύσονται οἱ κατοικοῦντεσ τὰσ πόλεισ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ καύσουσιν ἐν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ, πέλταισ καὶ κοντοῖσ καὶ τόξοισ καὶ τοξεύμασι καὶ ράβδοισ χειρῶν καὶ λόγχαισ. καὶ καύσουσιν ἐν αὐτοῖσ πῦρ ἑπτὰ ἔτη. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 39:9)
  • καὶ αἱ μὲν πρῶται τέσσαρεσ τάξεισ ἔστων κοντοφόρων, ὧν δὴ τοῖσ κοντοῖσ μακρὰ καὶ ἐπίλεπτα τὰ σιδήρια προῆκται. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 22:2)
  • καὶ τὴν πρώτην παίειν ἢ ἀκοντίζειν τοῖσ κοντοῖσ ἀφειδῶσ ἔσ τε ἵππουσ καὶ αὐτούσ. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 36:1)
  • κοντοῖσ δὲ πρῷραν εἶχον, οἳ δ’ ἐπωτίδων ἄγκυραν ἐξανῆπτον· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 3:2)
  • καὶ πρῶτον μὲν διενοοῦντο τοῖσ κοντοῖσ εἰσελαύνοντεσ ὠθεῖν καὶ βιάζεσθαι τοὺσ προτάκτουσ· (Plutarch, chapter 24 3:1)

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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