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κροκόδειλος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κροκόδειλος κροκοδείλου

Structure: κροκοδειλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. lizard
  2. crocodile
  3. A fallacy of the sophists

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

  • ταῦτα μὲν δὴ ἴσωσ μέτρια καὶ τὰ ὑπ’ Ἀσσυρίων γιγνόμενα καὶ ὑπὸ Φρυγῶν καὶ Λυδῶν, ’ ἢν δ’ εἰσ τὴν Αἴγυπτον ἔλθῃσ, τότε δὴ τότε ὄψει πολλὰ τὰ σεμνὰ καὶ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ἄξια τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, κριοπρόσωπον μὲν τὸν Δία, κυνοπρόσωπον δὲ τὸν βέλτιστον Ἑρμῆν καὶ τὸν Πᾶνα ὅλον τράγον καὶ ἶβίν τινα καὶ κροκόδειλον ἕτερον καὶ πίθηκον. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 14:1)
  • τὰ δὲ ἀμφίβια εἶναι ὡσ τὸν ποτάμιον ἵππον καὶ κροκόδειλον καὶ ἔνυδριν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 498)
  • φυτάλμιον καὶ εὔκαρπον τῶν ἡμερωτάτων καὶ βιωφελεστάτων καρπῶν, ἀλλ’ ἰδών που καὶ κροκόδειλον ἐννηχόμενον καὶ ἀσπίδα κατασυρομένην καὶ μύασ, ἄγρια ζῷα καὶ μιαρά, ταύτασ λέγοι τὰσ αἰτίασ τῆσ μέμψεωσ καὶ τῆσ τοῦ πράγματοσ ἀνάγκησ· (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 3 2:1)
  • ὁμῶσ κροκόδειλον ἂν ὀπτὸν δαισαίμην ἀπ’ ἰπνοῦ, τερπνὸν παίδεσσιν Ιὤνων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 112 1:2)
  • ὁ γὰρ τροχίλοσ ἐστὶ μὲν ὄρνισ τῶν ἑλείων καὶ παραποταμίων, φρουρεῖ δὲ τὸν κροκόδειλον οὐκ οἰκόσιτοσ ἀλλὰ τοῖσ ἐκείνου λειψάνοισ παρατρεφόμενοσ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 31 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. lizard

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