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κτείς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κτείς

Structure: κτει (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a comb
  2. the comb in the loom
  3. a rake
  4. the fingers, the teeth of a comb

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ Κλέαρχον καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ στρατηγοὺσ Τισαφέρνησ ἐξηπάτησε καὶ παρεσπόνδησεν ὁρ́κων γενομένων καὶ συλλαβὼν ἀνέπεμψεν ἐν πέδαισ δεδεμένουσ, δεηθῆναί φησιν αὐτοῦ τὸν Κλέαρχον ὁ Κτησίασ ὅπωσ κτενὸσ εὐπορήσειε. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 18 1:1)
  • ὦ ποδόσ, ὦ κνήμησ, ὦ τῶν ἀπόλωλα δικαίωσ μηρῶν, ὦ γλουτῶν, ὦ κτενόσ, ὦ λαγόνων, ὦ ὤμοιν, ὦ μαστῶν, ὦ τοῦ ῥαδινοῖο τραχήλου, ὦ χειρῶν, ὦ τῶν μαίνομαι ὀμματίων, ὦ κατατεχνοτάτου κινήματοσ, ὦ περιάλλων γλωττισμῶν, ὦ τῶν θῦ’ ἐμὲ φωναρίων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1321)

Synonyms

  1. a comb

  2. the comb in the loom

  3. a rake

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

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