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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

  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ Θεόγνιδοσ κἂν ἐγὼ μὴ λέγω, τίσ οὐκ οἶδεν, οὐκ ἀπαξιοῦντοσ, καὶ ἐσ βαθυκήτεα πόντον σφᾶσ αὐτοὺσ ῥιπτεῖν καὶ κατὰ κρημνῶν γε ἠλιβάτων, εἰ μέλλει τισ οὕτωσ ἀποδράσεσθαι τὴν πενίαν; (Lucian, Apologia 23:4)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ ἔτι ἔμπνουν καὶ ζῶντα τὸν ἄνδρα ἐξαιρεθῆναι κελεύσασ, ὡσ μὴ μιάνειε τὸ ἔργον ἐναποθανών, ἐκεῖνον μὲν ἄταφον κατὰ κρημνῶν ῥίπτειν ἐκέλευσα, καθήρασ δὲ τὸν βοῦν ἀνέπεμψα ὑμῖν ἀνατεθησόμενον τῷ θεῷ. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 12:4)
  • ἀλλὰ παρ’ ἡμῶν ἐξαίρετον ^ τῆσ συμβουλῆσ τοῦτό ἐστιν, ὅτι ἡδίστην τε ἅμα καὶ ἐπιτομωτάτην καὶ ἱππήλατον καὶ κατάντη σὺν πολλῇ τῇ θυμηδίᾳ καὶ τρυφῇ διὰ λειμώνων εὐανθῶν καὶ σκιᾶσ ἀκριβοῦσ σχολῇ καὶ βάδην ἀνιὼν ἀνιδρωτὶ ἐπιστήσῃ τῇ ἄκρᾳ καὶ ἀγρεύσεισ ^ οὐ καμὼν καὶ νὴ Δί’ εὐωχήσῃ κατακείμενοσ, ἐκείνουσ ^ ὁπόσοι τὴν ἑτέραν ἐτράποντο ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑψηλοῦ ἐπισκοπῶν ἐν τῇ ὑπωρείᾳ τῆσ ἀνόδου ἔτι, κατὰ δυσβάτων καὶ ὀλισθηρῶν τῶν κρημνῶν μόλισ ἀνέρποντασ, ἀποκυλιομένουσ ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν ἐνίοτε καὶ πολλὰ τραύματα λαμβάνοντασ περὶ τραχείαισ ταῖσ πέτραισ· (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 3:3)
  • καὶ μὴν εἴ τισ ὑπερόπτησ εἰή ἢ τύραννοσ πλούσιοσ ὑβριστήσ, ἀράμενοσ αὐτὸν ὅσον ἐπὶ σταδίουσ εἴκοσιν ἀφῆκα φέρεσθαι κατὰ τῶν κρημνῶν. (Lucian, 75:3)
  • νὴ Δία, κατὰ τῶν γε κρημνῶν οἱ πολλοὶ ἁλλόμενοι. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 44:9)

Related

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

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