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κορώνη?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: korōnē

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 ἐξεφύρθης; 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)
  • κρίσιν τε οὐ μὴ διακρίνωσιν αὐτῶν, οὐδὲ μὴ ρύσωνται ἀδικούμενον ἀδύνατοι ὄντες. ὥσπερ γὰρ κορῶναι ἀναμέσον τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ τῆς γῆς. (Septuagint, Litterae Ieremiae 1:54)
  • τοὺς μὲν γὰρ κἂν πεπειρᾶσθαί ποτε ἀνδρείας, τοῦτον δὲ ἐξ ἀρχῆς εὐθὺς ἀποκεκόφθαι καὶ ἀμφίβολόν τι ζῷον εἶναι κατὰ ταὐτὰ ταῖς κορώναις, αἳ μήτε περιστεραῖς μήτε κόραξιν ἐναριθμοῖντο ἄν, τοῦ δ οὐ σωματικὴν λέγοντος εἶναι τὴν κρίσιν, ἀλλὰ τῆς ^ ψυχῆς καὶ τῆς γνώμης ἐξέτασιν δεῖν γίγνεσθαι καὶ τῆς τῶν δογμάτων ἐπιστήμης. (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 8:3)
  • ἔφη γὰρ βούλεσθαι χρυσῷ βίῳ χρυσῆν κορώνην ἐπιθεῖναι: (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 13:2)
  • ὄρνιθες δὲ πολλοὶ αὐλίζονται ἐν τῇ νήσῳ, λάροι καὶ αἴθυιαι καὶ κορῶναι αἱ θαλάσσιαι τὸ πλῆθος οὐ σταθμητοί. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 21 5:1)
  • 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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