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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

  • ὡσ ἐκείνῳ γε ὄνομα ἦν παρ’ ἐμοὶ Κάνθαροσ, καὶ ἐκόμα δὲ καὶ τό γένειον ἐτίλλετο καὶ τέχνην τὴν ἐμὴν ἠπίστατο ’ ἀπέκειρεν γὰρ ἐν τῷ γναφείῳ καθήμενοσ ὁπόσον περιττὸν τοῖσ ἱματίοισ τῶν κροκύδων ἐπανθεῖ. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 28:2)
  • ἡ καὶ ἔτ’ ἐκ βρέφεοσ κοιμωμένη Ἀντιοδημὶσ πορφυρέων, Παφίησ νοσσίσ, ἐπὶ κροκύδων, ἡ τακεραῖσ λεύσσουσα κόραισ μαλακώτερον ὕπνου, Λύσιδοσ ἀλκυονίσ, τερπνὸν ἄθυρμα Μέθησ, ὑδατίνουσ φορέουσα βραχίονασ, ἣ μόνη ὀστοῦν οὐ λάχεν ἡ̓͂ν γὰρ ὅλη τοὐν ταλάροισι γάλἀ, Ἰταλίην ἤμειψεν, ἵνα πτολέμοιο καὶ αἰχμῆσ ἀμπαύσῃ Ῥώμην μαλθακίνῃ χάριτι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 5671)

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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