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κτείς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: kteis

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 κτεσί(ν)
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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