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κράδη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κράδη

Structure: κραδ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the quivering spray at the end of a branch, a fig-tree

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

  • 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)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ οὖν τέττιγεσ ἕνα μῆν’ ἢ δύο ἐπὶ τῶν κραδῶν ᾄδουσ’, Ἀθηναῖοι δ’ ἀεὶ ἐπὶ τῶν δικῶν ᾄδουσι πάντα τὸν βίον. (Aristophanes, Birds, Prologue 1:27)
  • ἐπειδὰν γὰρ ἐκ διαστήματοσ αὐτομάτωσ κράδαι συμπέσωσι, ἐμψύχων περιπλοκῇ ἐν τῷ μένουσιν ἡνωμέναι καθάπερ ἀπὸ ῥίζησ μιᾶσ, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν ἀνατρέχουσιν καὶ ζωοφυτοῦσιν διὸ καὶ τοῖσ ἡμέροισ φυλακὴν ἀπ’ αὐτῶν κατασκευάζουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 29 3:1)
  • "οὐδενὶ γὰρ τῶν περὶ σύκων λόγων παραχωρήσαιμι ἄν, κἂν ἀπὸ κράδησ ἀποκρέμασθαι δέῃ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 63)
  • "ἢ προσπηγνύναι κράδαισ ἐριναῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 649)
  • ὅταν πατρίδων ἐπιτύχοιεν, παραγινομένουσ εἰσ ἐκείνην τὴν πόλιν, ἣν διὰ τὸν ναὸν μητρόπολιν ἕξουσιν, ἐφ’ ἡμέρασ ὀκτὼ ἑορτὴν ἄγοντασ ὁλοκαυτεῖν τε καὶ θύειν τῷ θεῷ τότε χαριστήρια, φέροντασ ἐν ταῖσ χερσὶν εἰρεσιώνην μυρσίνησ καὶ ἰτέασ σὺν κράδῃ φοίνικοσ πεποιημένην τοῦ μήλου τοῦ τῆσ περσέασ προσόντοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 311:1)

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

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