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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

  • λεπάσιν, ἐχίνοισ, ἐσχάραισ, βελόναισ τε τοῖσ κτεσίν τε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 32 1:2)
  • λεπάσιν, ἐχίνοισ, ἐσχάραισ, βελόναισ τε τοῖσ κτεσίν τε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 3:6)

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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