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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

  • "πίνη, ὄστρεον, μῦσ, κτείσ, σωλήν, κόγχη, λεπάσ, τῆθοσ, βάλανοσ, πορευτικὰ δὲ κῆρυξ, πορφύρα, ἡδυπορφύρα, ἐχῖνοσ, στράβηλοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 35 2:1)
  • "ἐστὶ δ’ ὁ μὲν κτεὶσ τραχυόστρακοσ, ῥαβδωτόσ, τὸ δὲ τῆθοσ ἀράβδωτον, λειόστρακον, ἡ δὲ πίνη λεπτόστομον, τὸ δὲ ὄστρεον παχύστομον, δίθυρον δὲ καὶ τραχυόστρακον, λεπὰσ δὲ μονόθυρον καὶ λειόστρακον, συμφυὲσ δὲ μῦσ, μονοφυὲσ δὲ καὶ λειόστρακον σωλὴν καὶ βάλανοσ, κοινὸν δ’ ἐξ ἀμφοῖν κόγχη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 35 2:2)
  • "ἐστὶ δ’ ἡ μὲν τοῦ ὀστρέου ὄψισ παραπλησία τῷ κτενί, οὐ διέγλυπται δὲ ἀλλὰ λεῖον τὸ ὄστρακον ἔχει καὶ δασύ, οὐδὲ ὦτα ἔχει δύο ὥσπερ ὁ κτεὶσ ἀλλὰ ἕν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 458)
  • βολβὸσ κτεὶσ κοχλίασ ἐξῃρέθη. (Theocritus, Idylls, 18)

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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