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κρατήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρατήρ κρατῆρος

Structure: κρατηρ (Stem)

Etym.: kera/nnumi

Sense

  1. mixing bowl for wine
  2. messenger who bears an ode
  3. a constellation, the cup
  4. cup shaped basin, crater, mouth of a volcano

Declension

Third 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

  • ἀλλὰ θαρρῶν ἐπαγγέλλομαι αὐτοῖσ, ὅτι ἢν καὶ νῦν ὡσ πρότερόν ποτε τὴν τελετὴν ἐθελήσωσιν ἐπιδεῖν πολλάκισ καὶ ἀναμνησθῶσιν οἱ παλαιοὶ συμπόται κώμων κοινῶν τῶν τότε καιρῶν καὶ μὴ καταφρονήσωσιν τῶν Σατύρων καὶ Σιληνῶν, πίωσι δὲ ἐσ κόρον τοῦ κρατῆροσ τούτου, ἔτι βακχεύσειν καὶ αὐτοὺσ καὶ πολλάκισ μεθ’ ἡμῶν ἐρεῖν τὸ εὐοῖ. (Lucian, (no name) 5:4)
  • οὐκοῦν δευτέρου κρατῆροσ ἤδη καταρχώμεθα· (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 39:7)
  • "τὴν πόλιν εἶναι δεῖ δίκην κεκραμένην κρατῆροσ, οὗ μαινόμενοσ μὲν ὁ οἶνοσ ἐγκεχυμένοσ ζεῖ, κολαζόμενοσ δὲ ὑπὸ νήφοντοσ ἑτέρου θεοῦ καλὴν κοινωνίαν λαβὼν ἀγαθὸν πῶμα καὶ μέτριον ἀπεργάζεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 61 5:2)
  • Ἀπολλόδωροσ δ’ ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ τοῦ Κρατῆροσ ῥησειδίῳ ὁ τὴν κατὰ τὸν πυθμένα μὴ δυναμένην τίθεσθαι καὶ ἐρείδεσθαι, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸ στόμα, τινὲσ δέ φασιν, ὃν τρόπον ἀμφιφορεὺσ λέγεται ὁ ἀμφοτέρωθεν κατὰ τὰ ὦτα δυνάμενοσ φέρεσθαι, οὕτωσ καὶ τὴν ἀμφίθετον φιάλην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 103 1:3)
  • "οἱο͂ν εὐθὺσ ἡ περιβόητοσ ἐνταῦθα τοῦ κρατῆροσ ἕδρα καὶ βάσισ, ἣν Ἡρόδοτοσ ὑποκρητηρίδιον ὠνόμασεν, αἰτίασ μὲν ἔσχε τὰσ ὑλικάσ, πῦρ καὶ σίδηρον καὶ μάλαξιν διὰ πυρὸσ καὶ δι’ ὕδατοσ βαφήν, ὧν ἄνευ γενέσθαι τὸ ἔργον οὐδεμία μηχανή· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 476)

Synonyms

  1. a constellation

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