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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

  • διδόντι τοῖσ κτήνεσι τροφὴν αὐτῶν καὶ τοῖσ νεοσσοῖσ τῶν κοράκων τοῖσ ἐπικαλουμένοισ αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 146:9)
  • τῶν κοράκων πονηρίᾳ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode24)
  • χαῖρε, ὦ δέσποτα, καὶ ὅπωσ τοὺσ μιαροὺσ τούτουσ κόλακασ φυλάξῃ, τοὺσ ἐπὶ τῆσ τραπέζησ μόνον, τὰ ἄλλα δὲ κοράκων οὐδὲν διαφέροντασ. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 47:6)
  • Οὐδαμῶσ, ἀλλ̓ ἀκούσῃ τῶν κυνῶν μετ̓ ὀλίγον ὠρυομένων οἴκτιστον ἐπ̓ ἐμοὶ καὶ τῶν κοράκων τυπτομένων τοῖσ πτεροῖσ, ὁπόταν συνελθόντεσ θάπτωσί με. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 25:1)
  • τὰ δ’ αὐτὰ ἱστορήσασ καὶ Πολύζηλοσ ἐν τοῖσ Ῥοδιακοῖσ τὰ περὶ τῶν ἰχθύων, φησί, καὶ τῶν κοράκων μόνοι ᾔδεσαν ὁ Φακᾶσ καὶ ἡ θυγάτηρ αὐτοῦ Δορκία. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 61 5:1)

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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