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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κτείς κτένε κτένες
Genitive κτενός κτενοῖν κτενῶν
Dative κτενί κτενοῖν κτεσίν*
Accusative κτένα κτένε κτένας
Vocative κτείς κτένε κτένες

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

  • οὐκ ἐσ λόγουσ ἐλήλυθ’, ἀλλά σε κτενῶν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 1:7)
  • ἀντιτάξομαι κτενῶν σε. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, trochees 1:19)
  • "τῶν δὲ μυῶν οἱ μὲν Ἐφέσιοι καὶ οἱ τούτοισ ὅμοιοι τῇ εὐχυλίᾳ τῶν μὲν κτενῶν βελτίονεσ, τῶν δὲ χημῶν λειπόμενοι οὐρητικώτεροι δὲ μᾶλλον ἢ ἐπὶ τὴν κοιλίαν φερόμενοι, εἰσὶ δ’ αὐτῶν ἔνιοι καὶ σκιλλώδεισ κακόχυλοί τε καὶ πρὸσ τὴν γεῦσιν ἀπειθεῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 342)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐλάσσονεσ τούτων καὶ δασεῖσ ἔξωθεν οὐρητικώτεροι μέν εἰσι καὶ εὐχυλότεροι τῶν σκιλλωδῶν, ἀτροφώτεροι δέ, διά τε τὸ μέγεθοσ καὶ τῷ γένει ὄντεσ τοιοῦτοι, οἱ δὲ τῶν κηρύκων τράχηλοι εὐστόμαχοὶ τέ εἰσι καὶ ἀτροφώτεροι μυῶν τε καὶ χημῶν καὶ κτενῶν τοῖσ δ’ ἀσθενῆ τὸν στόμαχον ἔχουσι καὶ μὴ ῥᾳδίωσ ἀποδιωθοῦσι τὴν τροφὴν εἰσ τὸ κύτοσ τῆσ κοιλίασ χρήσιμοι, δύσφθαρτοί τε ὄντεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 343)
  • "τῶν δὲ κτενῶν ἁπαλώτεροι μὲν εἰσιν οἱ λευκοί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a comb

  2. the comb in the loom

  3. a rake

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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