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κοπρών

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοπρών κοπρῶνος

Structure: κοπρων (Stem)

Etym.: ko/pros

Sense

  1. a place for dung, privy

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κοπρών κοπρῶνε κοπρῶνες
Genitive κοπρῶνος κοπρώνοιν κοπρώνων
Dative κοπρῶνι κοπρώνοιν κοπρῶσιν*
Accusative κοπρῶνα κοπρῶνε κοπρῶνας
Vocative κοπρών κοπρῶνε κοπρῶνες

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

  • τοῖσ τ’ ἀνθρώποισι φράσον σιγᾶν, τοὺσ τε κοπρῶνασ καὶ τὰσ λαύρασ καιναῖσ πλίνθοισιν ἀνοικοδομεῖν καὶ τοὺσ πρωκτοὺσ ἐπικλῄειν. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests12)
  • σὺ μὲν τὸ Θήβησ, ὡσ λέγεισ, πέδον λιπών, ἀνδρῶν ἀρίστων ἐσθίειν δι’ ἡμέρασ ὅλησ τραχήλουσ καὶ κοπρῶνασ πλησίον Δίφιλοσ δὲ ἐν Βοιωτίδι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 11 2:3)
  • "ἐν δὲ τῷ περὶ Πολιτείασ εἰπὼν ὅτι ἐγγύσ ἐσμεν τοῦ καὶ τοὺσ κοπρῶνασ ζῳγραφεῖν μετ’ ὀλίγον τὰ γεωργικά φησι καλλωπίζειν τινὰσ ἀναδενδράσι καὶ μυρρίναισ, καὶ ταὼσ καὶ περιστερὰσ τρέφουσι καὶ πέρδικασ ἵνα κακκαβίζωσιν αὐτοῖσ καὶ ἀηδόνασ. (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 21 8:2)
  • διὸ καὶ παρὰ τοὺσ κοπρῶνασ κατορύττουσι καὶ τοὺσ βασιλεῖσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 51:16)

Synonyms

  1. a place for dung

Related

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

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