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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

  • πολλοὶ γοῦν ἐσ κόρον ἀπὸ τοῦ τοιούτου ἐπεσιτίσαντο, οἷσ ἵλεωσ καὶ φορὸσ ὁ κύβοσ ἐπινεύσει· (Lucian, Saturnalia, 4:2)
  • Δίφιλοσ δ’ ἐν Συνωρίδι ἑταίρασ δ’ ὄνομα ἡ Συνωρὶσ Εὐριπίδου μνησθεὶσ κύβοσ δέ τισ οὕτωσ καλεῖται Εὐριπίδησ παίζων καὶ πρὸσ τὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ ὄνομα ἅμα καὶ περὶ παρασίτων, τάδε λέγει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 511)
  • οὐ τμητικὸν οὐδὲ κινητικὸν οὐδὲ λεῖπον οὐδ’ ἔχον ὀξύτητασ οὐδὲ μαλθακὸν οὐδ’ εὐπερίχυτον γέγονεν, ἀλλ’ ἑδραῖον ὡσ ὁ κύβοσ καὶ συνερειστικόν, ὅθεν αὐτή τε βρῖθοσ ἔσχε,· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 213)
  • ὁ δὲ τῶν σισ’ κύβοσ ἐστὶν ἀπὸ ἑξάδοσ ἴσοσ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ περιμέτρῳ. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 13 5:2)
  • εὔλογον τὰ γὰρ ξδ’ καὶ κύβοσ ἐστὶν ἀπὸ πρώτου τετραγώνου καὶ τετράγωνοσ ἀπὸ πρώτου κύβου· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 16 16:1)

Synonyms

  1. die

  2. chance

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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