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κυβιστητήρ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυβιστητήρ κυβιστητῆρος

Structure: κυβιστητηρ (Stem)

Sense

  1. a tumbler
  2. a diver, one who pitches headlong

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

  • ἃ δὲ Ὅμηροσ ὑπὲρ Ἀριάδνησ ἐν τῇ ἀσπίδι πεποίηκεν καὶ τοῦ χοροῦ ὃν αὐτῇ Δαίδαλοσ ἤσκησεν ὡσ ἀνεγνωκότι σοι παρίημι, καὶ τοὺσ ὀρχηστὰσ δὲ τοὺσ δύο οὓσ ἐκεῖ ὁ ποιητὴσ κυβιστητῆρασ καλεῖ, ἡγουμένουσ τοῦ χοροῦ, καὶ πάλιν ἃ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ ἀσπίδι λέγει· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 13:1)
  • πολλοὶ δ’ ἔπιπτον κρᾶτασ αἱματούμενοι, ἡμῶν τ’ ἐσ οὖδασ εἶδεσ ἂν πρὸ τειχέων πυκνοὺσ κυβιστητῆρασ ἐκπεπνευκότασ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 8:5)

Synonyms

  1. a tumbler

  2. a diver

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

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