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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κροκύς κροκύδε κροκύδες
Genitive κροκύδος κροκύδοιν κροκύδων
Dative κροκύδι κροκύδοιν κροκύσιν*
Accusative κροκύδα κροκύδε κροκύδας
Vocative κροκύ κροκύδε κροκύδες

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

  • "ἀγνάπτοισ δὲ τούτοισ πρὸσ τοῦτο διὰ τὴν τραχύτητα καὶ ξηρότητα τῆσ κροκύδοσ οὐκ ἐώσησ ἐπιπεσεῖν βαρὺ θοἰμάτιον οὐδὲ συνθλῖψαι τὴν χαυνότητα τῆσ χιόνοσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 3:15)

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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