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κορυστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κορυστής κορυστοῦ

Structure: κορυστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: ko/rus

Sense

  1. a helmed man, an armed warrior

Declension

First 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

  • Ἴμβριον αὖτ’ Αἰάντε μεμαότε θούριδοσ ἀλκῆσ ὥσ τε δύ’ αἶγα λέοντε κυνῶν ὕπο καρχαροδόντων ἁρπάξαντε φέρητον ἀνὰ ῥωπήϊα πυκνὰ ὑψοῦ ὑπὲρ γαίησ μετὰ γαμφηλῇσιν ἔχοντε, ὥσ ῥα τὸν ὑψοῦ ἔχοντε δύω Αἰάντε κορυστὰ τεύχεα συλήτην· (Homer, Iliad, Book 13 19:2)
  • ὡσ δ’ ἀπὸ σώματοσ οὔ τι λέοντ’ αἴθωνα δύνανται ποιμένεσ ἄγραυλοι μέγα πεινάοντα δίεσθαι, ὥσ ῥα τὸν οὐκ ἐδύναντο δύω Αἰάντε κορυστὰ Ἕκτορα Πριαμίδην ἀπὸ νεκροῦ δειδίξασθαι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 16:9)

Synonyms

  1. a helmed man

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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