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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

  • καὶ δέκα χιλιάδασ ἐζώγρησαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰούδα καὶ ἔφερον αὐτοὺσ ἐπὶ τὸ ἄκρον τοῦ κρημνοῦ καὶ κατεκρήμνιζον αὐτοὺσ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἄκρου τοῦ κρημνοῦ, καὶ πάντεσ διερρήγνυντο. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 25:12)
  • οὔτε γὰρ ταπεινὸν καὶ πρόσγειον ἐσταυρῶσθαι χρή, ὡσ μὴ ἐπαμύνοιεν αὐτῷ τὰ πλάσματα αὐτοῦ οἱ ἄνθρωποι, οὔτε μὴν κατὰ τὸ ἄκρον, ‐ ἀφανὴσ γὰρ ἂν εἰή τοῖσ κάτω ‐ ἀλλ’ εἰ δοκεῖ κατὰ μέσον ἐνταῦθά που ὑπὲρ τῆσ φάραγγοσ ἀνεσταυρώσθω ἐκπετασθεὶσ τὼ χεῖρε ἀπὸ τουτουὶ τοῦ κρημνοῦ πρὸσ τὸν ἐναντίον. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 1:4)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ὑπήκουέ μοι τὸ χρῆμα, τολμηρότερον ἤδη τῆσ πείρασ ἡπτόμην, καὶ ἀνελθὼν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀκρόπολιν ἀφῆκα ἐμαυτὸν κατὰ τοῦ κρημνοῦ φέρων ἐσ αὐτὸ τὸ θέατρον. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 10:10)
  • οἱ δὲ περὶ τὰσ πύλασ ἔξω περὶ τὸ Ἡραῖον ἀπολειφθέντεσ τοῦ Ἀράτου στρατιῶται, τριακόσιοι τὸ πλῆθοσ ὄντεσ, ὥσ ποτε παρεισέπεσον εἰσ τὴν πόλιν θορύβου τε παντοδαποῦ καὶ φώτων γέμουσαν, οὐ δυνηθέντεσ ἐξανευρεῖν τὸν αὐτὸν τρίβον οὐδ’ εἰσ ἴχνοσ ἐμβῆναι τῆσ ἐκείνων πορείασ, ἔπτηξαν ἀθρόοι πρόσ τινι παλινσκίῳ λαγόνι τοῦ κρημνοῦ συστείλαντεσ ἑαυτούσ, καὶ διεκαρτέρουν ἐνταῦθα περιπαθοῦντεσ καὶ δυσανασχετοῦντεσ. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 22 2:1)

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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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