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κόρση

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόρση

Structure: κορς (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ka/ra

Sense

  1. one of the temples, the side of the forehead
  2. the hair on the temples

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κόρση κόρσᾱ κόρσαι
Genitive κόρσης κόρσαιν κορσῶν
Dative κόρσῃ κόρσαιν κόρσαις
Accusative κόρσην κόρσᾱ κόρσᾱς
Vocative κόρση κόρσᾱ κόρσαι

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

  • περιστομίοισ τοῦ πνεύματοσ τὸ ῥαγδαῖον ἐγκαθεῖρξε καὶ τοῦ προσώπου κατεκόσμησε καὶ ἀπέκρυψε τὴν ἀνωμαλίαν, χρυσῷ δ’ αἰγλήεντι συνήρμοσεν ἀμφιδασείασ κόρσασ, καὶ στόμα λάβρον ὀπισθοδέτοισιν ἱμᾶσιν. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 6 12:1)
  • καὶ ὁ Μαρσύασ, ὡσ ἐοίκε, φορβειᾷ τινι καὶ περιστομίοισ τοῦ πνεύματοσ τὸ ῥαγδαῖον ἐγκαθεῖρξε καὶ τοῦ προσώπου κατεκόσμησε καὶ ἀπέκρυψε τὴν ἀνωμαλίαν, χρυσῷ δ’ αἰγλήεντι συνήρμοσεν ἀμφιδασείασ κόρσασ, καὶ στόμα λάβρον ὀπισθοδέτοισιν ἱμᾶσιν· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 6 3:5)
  • λευκὰσ δὲ κόρσασ τῇδ’ ἐπαντέλλειν νόσῳ· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 12:7)

Synonyms

  1. one of the temples

  2. the hair on the temples

Similar forms

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

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