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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 ὁ κοντὸσ τοῦ δόρατοσ αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ μέσακλον ὑφαινόντων, καὶ ἡ λόγχη αὐτοῦ ἑξακοσίων σίκλων σιδήρου. καὶ ὁ αἴρων τὰ ὅπλα αὐτοῦ προεπορεύετο αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 17:7)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τὴν κατάφρακτον ἵππον, ἧσ πλεῖστοσ ἦν λόγοσ, κατεῖδε κατατεταγμένην ὑπὸ λόφῳ τινὶ τὴν ἄνω χώραν ἐπίπεδον καὶ πλατεῖαν ἔχοντι, πρόσβασιν δὲ τεττάρων σταδίων οὐ παντάπασι χαλεπὴν οὐδ’ ἀποκεκομμένην, Θρᾷκασ μὲν ἱππεῖσ καὶ Γαλάτασ, οὓσ εἶχεν, ἐκέλευσεν ἐκ πλαγίου προσφερομένουσ παρακρούεσθαι ταῖσ μαχαίραισ τοὺσ κοντούσ, μία γὰρ ἀλκὴ τῶν καταφράκτων κοντόσ· (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 28 2:1)
  • τοῖσ δὲ ἱππεῦσιν μάχαιρα μὲν ἐκ δεξιῶν μακρὰ καὶ κοντὸσ ἐπιμήκησ ἐν χειρί, θυρεὸσ δὲ παρὰ πλευρὸν ἵππου πλάγιοσ, καὶ κατὰ γωρυτοῦ παρήρτηνται τρεῖσ ἢ πλείουσ ἄκοντεσ, πλατεῖσ μὲν αἰχμάσ, οὐκ ἀποδέοντεσ δὲ δοράτων μέγεθοσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 120:1)

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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