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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

  • δύο δὲ κυβιστητῆρεσ μολπῆσ ἐξάρχοντεσ ἐδίνευον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 242)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐξάρχοντεσ οἱ κυβιστητῆρεσ, ἀλλ’ ἐξάρχοντοσ τοῦ ᾠδοῦ πάντωσ ὠρχοῦντο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 9 2:2)
  • ἦ ῥα καὶ ἐν Τρώεσσι κυβιστητῆρεσ ἐάσιν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 62:12)

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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