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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κρημνός κρημνώ κρημνοί
Genitive κρημνοῦ κρημνοῖν κρημνῶν
Dative κρημνῷ κρημνοῖν κρημνοῖς
Accusative κρημνόν κρημνώ κρημνούς
Vocative κρημνέ κρημνώ κρημνοί

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

  • ὁ δ’ ἄρ’ ἔνδον ἐλασίβροντ’ ἀναρρηγνὺσ ἔπη τερατευόμενοσ ἤρειδε κατὰ τῶν ἱππέων, κρημνοὺσ ἐρείδων καὶ ξυνωμότασ λέγων πιθανώταθ’· (Aristotle, Lyric-Scene, iambics3)
  • κρημνούσ τε καὶ σήραγγασ ἠδ’ ἐπακτίασ αὐλῶνασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 15 2:3)
  • ταῖσ μὲν οὖν ἄλλαισ οὐ προσέσχομεν, ἧσ δὲ ἐπέβημεν, τοιάδε ἦν κύκλῳ μὲν πᾶσα κρημνώδησ καὶ ἀπόξυροσ, πέτραισ καὶ τράχωσι κατεσκληκυῖα, δένδρον δ’ οὐδὲν οὐδὲ ὕδωρ ἐνῆν ἀνερπύσαντεσ δὲ ὅμωσ κατὰ τοὺσ κρημνοὺσ προῇμεν διά τινοσ ἀκανθώδουσ καὶ σκολόπων μεστῆσ ἀτραποῦ, πολλὴν ἀμορφίαν τῆσ χώρασ ἐχούσησ. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 30:1)
  • βάραθρα καὶ κρημνοὺσ; (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 14 3:1)
  • τὰ ἐμφανῆ, κρημνοὺσ καὶ σκοπέλουσ καὶ πέτρασ, Ἐμπεδοκλῆσ μὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ πυρὸσ οἰέται τοῦ ἐν βάθει τῆσ γῆσ ἑστάναι καὶ ἀνέχεσθαι διερειδόμενα φλεγμαίνοντοσ· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 19 4:1)

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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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