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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

  • Καρχηδόνιοι δὲ ὅτε ναυτικῷ μάλιστα ἴσχυσαν, κατεστρέψαντο μὲν καὶ ἅπαντασ τοὺσ ἐν τῇ Σαρδοῖ πλὴν Ἰλιέων τε καὶ Κορσῶν ‐ τούτοισ δὲ μὴ ἐσ δουλείαν ὑπαχθῆναι τὸ ἐχυρὸν ἤρκεσε τῶν ὀρῶν ‐ , ᾤκισαν δὲ ἐν τῇ νήσῳ καὶ αὐτοὶ πόλιν οἱ Καρχηδόνιοι Κάραλίν τε καὶ Σύλκουσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 14:1)

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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