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κορώνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κορώνη κορώνης

Structure: κορων (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a type of sea-bird, perhaps shearwater
  2. crow
  3. anything curved, especially a door handle
  4. the tip of a bow, on which the string is hooked
  5. the curved stern of a ship, especially its crown (ornamental top)
  6. the tip of a plow-beam, upon which the yoke was attached
  7. apophysis (the part of a bone where the tendon is attached)
  8. end, tip, point

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

  • ἆρον τοὺσ ὀφθαλμούσ σου εἰσ εὐθεῖαν καὶ ἰδέ. πῶσ οὐχὶ ἐξεφύρθησ̣ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ ἐκάθισασ αὐτοῖσ ὡσεὶ κορώνη ἐρημουμένη καὶ ἐμίανασ τὴν γῆν ἐν ταῖσ πορνείαισ σου καὶ ἐν ταῖσ κακίαισ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 3:2)
  • ἦμοσ δὴ τὸ πρῶτον, ὅσον τ’ ἐπιβᾶσα κορώνη ἴχνοσ ἐποίησεν, τόσσον πέταλ’ ἀνδρὶ φανείῃ ἐν κράδῃ ἀκροτάτῃ, τότε δ’ ἄμβατόσ ἐστι θάλασσα· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 75:2)
  • μηδὲ δόμον ποιῶν ἀνεπίξεστον καταλείπειν, μή τοι ἐφεζομένη κρώξῃ λακέρυζα κορώνη. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 89:1)
  • τὸ δ’ ἐμὲ κορώνῃ πειθόμενον τὸν ἄθλιον ὁδοῦ περιελθεῖν στάδια πλεῖν ἢ χίλια. (Aristophanes, Birds, Prologue 1:6)
  • οὐδ’ ἡ κορώνη τῆσ ὁδοῦ τι λέγει πέρι; (Aristophanes, Birds, Prologue 1:20)

Synonyms

  1. a type of sea-bird

  2. crow

  3. anything curved

  4. the tip of a bow

  5. end

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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