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κόραξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόραξ κόρακος

Structure: κορακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. raven, crow
  2. cormorant
  3. anything hooked or curved
  4. door handle
  5. engine for grappling ships
  6. hook
  7. type of torture instrument
  8. cock's bill

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐδόκει δέ μοι Θέωροσ αὐτῆσ πλησίον χαμαὶ καθῆσθαι τὴν κεφαλὴν κόρακοσ ἔχων. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 1:35)
  • ἔστι δ’ ἐκ τούτου τοῦ τόπου ἡ Κόρακοσ τέχνη συγκειμένη· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 24 11:1)
  • Κόρακοσ τοῦ Ναξίου· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section41)
  • ὡσ δὲ πολὺσ ἐγεγόνει τῇ μάχῃ χρόνοσ, ὁ μὲν Κελτὸσ φέρων ἐπὶ τὸν Οὐαλέριον τὴν μάχαιραν ὡσ διὰ τῆσ προβολῆσ εἰσ τὰ πλευρὰ βάψων, ἔπειτ’ ἐπιπτάντοσ αὐτῷ τοῦ κόρακοσ καὶ τὰσ ὄψεισ ὀρύττοντοσ ἀνέτεινε τὸν θυρεὸν ὡσ ἀπελάσων τὸν ὄρνιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 15, chapter 1 3:1)
  • ἀλλὰ σὺ νηπιάχου δμωόσ, κόνι, μήποτε βρίθειν ὀστέα, τοῦ διετοῦσ φειδομένη Κόρακοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 632 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. raven

  2. cormorant

  3. door handle

  4. hook

  5. type of torture instrument

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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