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κρωσσός

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρωσσός κρωσσοῦ

Structure: κρωσς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a water-pail, pitcher, jar
  2. a cinerary urn

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κρωσσός κρωσσώ κρωσσοί
Genitive κρωσσοῦ κρωσσοῖν κρωσσῶν
Dative κρωσσῷ κρωσσοῖν κρωσσοῖς
Accusative κρωσσόν κρωσσώ κρωσσούς
Vocative κρωσσέ κρωσσώ κρωσσοί

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

  • ὕδατι δ’ ἐν μέσσῳ Νύμφαι χορὸν ἀρτίζοντο, Νύμφαι ἀκοίμητοι, δειναὶ θεαὶ ἀγροιώταισ, Εὐνείκα καὶ Μαλὶσ ἐάρ θ’ ὁρόωσα Νύχεια, ἤτοι ὁ κοῦροσ ἐπεῖχε ποτῷ πολυχανδέα κρωσσὸν βάψαι ἐπειγόμενοσ, ταὶ δ’ ἐν χερὶ πᾶσαι ἔφυσαν· (Theocritus, Idylls, 13)
  • τῷ χ’ ἡμᾶσ κλαύσαντε φίλῃσ ἐπὶ χερσὶ τοκῆεσ πολλοῖσ σὺν κτερέεσσι πυρῆσ ἐπέβησαν ὁμοίησ, καί κεν ἕνα χρύσειον ἐσ ὀστέα κρωσσὸν ἁπάντων λέξαντεσ κατέθαψαν, ὅθι πρῶτον γενόμεσθα. (Theocritus, Idylls, 17)
  • Βωλοτόμοι μύρμηκεσ, ὁ γῆσ στρατόσ, ἡνίκ’ ἔτενδε γειομόρου μελιχρὴν σμηνοδόκου χάριτα, μηνίσασ ὁ πρέσβυσ, ἐσ ὕδατα κρωσσὸν ἔβαψεν, ἐνθάδε τοὺσ ἀπὸ γῆσ οὐ δοκέων πελάσειν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 4381)

Synonyms

  1. a water-pail

  2. a cinerary urn

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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