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κορυφαῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κορυφαῖον κορυφαῖου

Structure: κορυφαι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from korufai=os

Sense

  1. the upper rim of a hunting-net

Declension

Second 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

  • τὰ μὲν δὴ ὑψηλὰ καὶ κορυφαῖα τοῦ οἴκου τοιάδε, Ὁμήρου τινὸσ δεόμενα ἐπαινέτου, ἵνα αὐτὸν ἢ ὑψώροφον ὡσ τὸν Ἑλένησ θάλαμον ἢ αἰγλήεντα ὡσ τὸν Ὄλυμπον εἴποι· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 9:1)
  • πρῶτον μὲν τοίνυν τῆσ ἐπιφατνιδίασ φορβειᾶσ ἐπίστασθαι αὐτὸν δεῖ μήποτε τὸ ἅμμα ποιεῖσθαι ἔνθαπερ ἡ κορυφαία περιτίθεται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. the upper rim of a hunting-net

Related

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

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