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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)
  • 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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