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κροῦσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κροῦσις κροῦσεως

Structure: κρουσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: krou/w

Sense

  1. a striking, smiting
  2. a tapping, deception, cheatery
  3. a playing on a stringed instrument

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κροῦσις κρούσει κρούσεις
Genitive κρούσεως κρούσοιν κρούσεων
Dative κρούσει κρούσοιν κρούσεσιν*
Accusative κροῦσιν κρούσει κρούσεις
Vocative κροῦσι κρούσει κρούσεις

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

  • καὶ μικρὰ μὲν περιλαβὼν ταῖσ ἡνίαισ τὸν χαλινόν ἄνευ πληγῆσ καὶ σπαραγμοῦ , προσανέστειλεν ὡσ δὲ ἑώρα τὸν ἵππον ἀφεικότα τὴν ἀπειλήν, ὀργῶντα δὲ πρὸσ τὸν δρόμον, ἐφεὶσ ἐδίωκεν ἤδη φωνῇ θρασυτέρᾳ καὶ ποδὸσ κρούσει χρώμενοσ. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 6 4:2)
  • ὑστερίζειν δὲ τούτου τοὺσ ἐν τῷ πολυχόρδῳ τε καὶ πολυτρόπῳ καταγιγνομένουσ Ὁ̔́τι δ’ οἱ παλαιοὶ οὐ δι’ ἄγνοιαν ἀπείχοντο τῆσ τρίτησ ἐν τῷ σπονδειάζοντι τρόπῳ, φανερὸν ποιεῖ ἡ ἐν τῇ κρούσει γενομένη χρῆσισ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 18 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a playing on a stringed instrument

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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