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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

  • καλέσασ οὖν τοὺσ ἱερεῖσ ἔφη πρότεροσ ἀδικηθεὶσ ἀμύνεσθαι τοὺσ κροκοδείλουσ, καὶ προσέταξε θηρεύειν αὐτούσ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 116:2)
  • Τὸ μὲν ὅλον παύσασθαι αὐτοῖσ παρεγγύα ληροῦσι καὶ περὶ τῶν ὅλων ἐρίζουσι καὶ κέρατα φύουσιν ἀλλήλοισ καὶ κροκοδείλουσ ποιοῦσι καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἄπορα ἐρωτᾶν διδάσκουσι τὸν νοῦν. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6:6)
  • ὑέσθαι δὲ κατάπερ τὰ Ἰνδῶν οὐκ ἔξω ἐστὶ τοῦ οἰκότοσ, ἐπεὶ καὶ τἄλλα ἡ Ἰνδῶν γῆ οὐκ ἀπέοικε τῆσ Αἰθιοπίησ, καὶ οἱ ποταμοὶ οἱ Ἰνδικοὶ ὁμοίωσ τῷ Νείλῳ τῷ Αἰθιοπηίῳ τε καὶ Αἰγυπτίῳ κροκοδείλουσ τε φέρουσιν, ἔστιν δὲ οἳ αὐτῶν καὶ ἰχθύασ καὶ ἄλλα κήτεα ὅσα ὁ Νεῖλοσ, πλὴν ἵππου τοῦ ποταμίου· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 6 8:1)
  • εἰ μὲν τοὺσ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ νενομοθετημένουσ τὸν βοῦν καὶ τράγον καὶ κροκοδείλουσ καὶ κυνοκεφάλουσ, ἑώρα. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 282:4)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ πτηνὰ γεννᾷ καὶ νηκτὰ μυρία καὶ χερσαῖα, σαύρασ, καὶ ἀμφίβια, κροκοδείλουσ, καὶ δίποδα, τὸν ὄρνιν, καὶ ἄποδα, τὸν ὄφιν, καὶ πολύποδα, τὸν ἀττέλεβον· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 14:3)

Synonyms

  1. lizard

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