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κροκύς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κροκύς κροκύδος

Structure: κροκυδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kro/kh

Sense

  1. the flock or nap on woollen cloth

Declension

Third 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

  • Τοῦ δ’ εἵνεκα προσεκτέον, ὅτι, ὁκόταν οἱ πόδεσ ψυχροὶ ἐώσι, θερμὴν ἀνάγκη τὴν κοιλίην εἶναι καὶ πολλῆσ ἄσησ μεστὴν, καὶ ὑποτεταραγμένη, οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν τοιουτέων τὰσ κροκύδασ ἀφαιρέουσι, καὶ τὰσ Ῥῖνασ σκάλλουσι, καὶ κατὰ βραχὺ μὲν ἀποκρίνονται τὸ ἐρωτώμενον, αὐτοὶ δὲ ἀφ’ ἑωυτῶν οὐδὲν λέγουσι κατηρτημένον‧ δοκέει οὖν μοι τὰ τοιάδε μελαγχολικὰ εἶναι‧ ἢν δὲ τοιῶνδε ἐόντων ἡ κοιλίη ὑγρὴ ᾖ καὶ ξυντήκῃ, δοκέει μοι τὰ Ῥοφήματα ψυχρότερα καὶ παχύτερα προσφέρειν, καὶ τὰ πόματα στατικὰ καὶ οἰνωδέστερα ἢ καὶ στυπτικώτερα. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 7.8)

Synonyms

  1. the flock or nap on woollen cloth

    • κρόκη (the flock or nap of woollen cloth, cloth with curly nap, with cloths of)

Similar forms

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

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