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κρόταλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρόταλον κρόταλου

Structure: κροταλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: krote/w

Sense

  1. a rattle, castanet
  2. a rattling fellow, a rattle

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

  • ἡ κροτάλοισ ὀρχηστρὶσ Ἀρίστιον, ἡ περὶ πεύκασ τῇ Κυβέλῃ πλοκάμουσ ῥῖψαι ἐπισταμένη, ἡ λωτῷ κερόεντι φορουμένη, ἡ τρὶσ ἐφεξῆσ εἰδυῖ’ ἀκρήτου χειλοποτεῖν κύλικασ, ἐνθάδ’ ὑπὸ πτελέαισ ἀναπαύεται, οὐκέτ’ ἔρωτι, οὐκέτ’ παννυχίδων τερπομένη καμάτοισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2231)

Synonyms

  1. a rattle

  2. a rattling fellow

Related

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

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