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κρημνός

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρημνός κρημνοῦ

Structure: κρημν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: krh/mnamai

Sense

  1. an overhanging bank, the steep bank, edge, a beetling cliff, crag, down from the cliffs

Declension

Second 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

  • ἀπόξυροί τε γὰρ αἱ πέτραι καὶ ἀπρόσβατοι πανταχόθεν, ἠρέμα ἐπινενευκυῖαι, καὶ τῷ ποδὶ στενὴν ταύτην ὁ κρημνὸσ ἔχει τὴν ἐπίβασιν, ὡσ ἀκροποδητὶ μόλισ ἑστάναι, καὶ ὅλωσ ἐπικαιρότατοσ ἂν ὁ σταυρὸσ γένοιτο. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 1:6)
  • "ἄκρον ἰητρὸν Ἄκρων’, Ἀκραγαντῖνον πατρὸσ Ἄκρου κρύπτει κρημνὸσ ἄκροσ πατρίδοσ ἀκροτάτησ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 3)
  • ἔστι δὲ τὸ χωρίον κρημνὸσ ἐξαίσιοσ, ὅθεν αὐτοῖσ ἔθοσ ἦν βάλλειν τοὺσ ἐπιθανατίουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 35 6:1)
  • ἄκρον ἰατρὸν Ἄκρων’ Ἀκραγαντῖνον πατρὸσ Ἄκρου κρύπτει κρημνὸσ ἄκροσ πατρίδοσ ἀκροτάτησ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, h, Kef. b'. EMPEDOKLHS 15:4)
  • ἔνθα κορυφὴ μέν τισ ὄρουσ εἰσ ἄπειρον ὕψοσ ἀνατείνεται, παρὰ δὲ τὴν ὑπόρειον λαγόνα συνηρεφὲσ ἄντρον ὑπανοίγει, δι’ οὗ βαραθρώδησ κρημνὸσ εἰσ ἀμέτρητον ἀπορρῶγα βαθύνεται πλήθει τε ὕδατοσ ἀσαλεύτου καὶ τοῖσ καθιμῶσίν τι πρὸσ ἔρευναν γῆσ οὐδὲν μῆκοσ ἐξαρκεῖ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 578:1)

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

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