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κύβος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 수학 해부학 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύβος κύβου

Structure: κυβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. square, cube
  2. die, dice
  3. chance
  4. (mathematics) cube, cubic number
  5. (anatomy) vertebra; hollow above the hip of cattle

Declension

Second 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

  • κέχυται δὲ ὥσπερ γῆ κονία, κεκόλληκα δὲ αὐτὸν ὥσπερ λίθῳ κύβον. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 38:38)
  • ὥστε λόγῳ μὲν ἐφ̓ ἑνὸσ ἀνδρὸσ ἀναρρίψομεν τὸν κύβον, τὸ δ̓ ἀληθὲσ ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ τοὺσ ἁπανταχόθεν ἀνθρώπουσ συγκαλέσασ εἰσ κοινὸν θέατρον ἐπιδεικνυοίμην τοὺσ λόγουσ· (Lucian, Harmonides 8:3)
  • ἀλλ’ εἴ μοι τοιοῦτοσ ἀγγελιαφόροσ γένοιο πρὸσ αὐτὴν οἱο͂σ παρ’ ἐκείνησ πρὸσ μὲ γεγένησαι, τολμήσω ἀναρρῖψαι τὸν κύβον, θάρρει, ὦ Λυκῖνε, τούτου γε ἕνεκα, ὡσ οὐ φαῦλόν με ὑποκριτὴν ἕξων τῆσ ἀπολογίασ, πειρώμενοσ διὰ βραχέων εἰπεῖν, ὡσ ἂν μᾶλλον μνημονεύσαιμι. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 16:4)
  • "τὸν δὲ πέμπτον οὐρανὸν οἱ δὲ φῶσ οἱ δ’ αἰθέρα καλοῦσιν, οἱ δ’ αὐτὸ τοῦτο πέμπτην οὐσίαν, τὸ κύκλῳ περιφέρεσθαι μόνῃ τῶν σωμάτων κατὰ φύσιν ἐστίν, οὐκ ἐξ ἀνάγκησ οὔτ’ ἄλλωσ συμβεβηκὸσ δὴ καὶ τὰ πέντε καὶ κάλλιστα καὶ τελεώτατα σχήματα τῶν ἐν τῇ φύσει κατανοήσασ, πυραμίδα καὶ κύβον καὶ ὀκτάεδρον καὶ εἰκοσάεδρον καὶ δωδεκάεδρον, ἕκαστον οἰκείωσ ἑκάστῳ προσένειμεν. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 114)
  • γίγνεται δὲ τοῦτο κατὰ μὲν τὸ πῦρ μονάδοσ τιθεμένησ, κατὰ δ’ ἀντίχθονα τριῶν, κατὰ δὲ γῆν ἐννέα καὶ κατὰ σελήνην εἰκοσιεπτά, καὶ κατὰ τὸν Ἑρμοῦ μιᾶσ καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα, κατὰ δὲ Φωσφόρον τριῶν καὶ μ’ καὶ σ’, κατ’ αὐτὸν δὲ τὸν ἥλιον θ’ καὶ κ’ καὶ ψ’, ὅστισ ἅμα τετράγωνόσ τε καὶ κύβοσ ἐστί διὸ καὶ τὸν ἥλιον ἔστιν ὅτε τετράγωνον καὶ κύβον προσαγορεύουσιν. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 31 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. die

  2. chance

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