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κυφός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυφός κυφή κυφόν

Structure: κυφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ku/ptw

Sense

  1. bent forwards, bent, stooping, hump-backed

Declension

First/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

  • Αὐτὴ δὲ ἡ Ῥάχισ κατὰ μῆκοσ ἰθυσκόλιόσ ἐστιν‧ ἀπὸ μὲν τοῦ ἱεροῦ ὀστέου ἄχρι τοῦ μεγάλου σπονδύλου, παρ’ ὃν προσήρτηται τῶν σκελέων ἡ πρόσφυσισ, ἄχρι μὲν τούτου κυφή‧ κύστισ τε γὰρ, καὶ γοναὶ, καὶ ἀρχοῦ τὸ χαλαρὸν ἐν τουτέῳ ἔκτισται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 45.10)
  • Ῥάχισ δὲ ἀπὸ μὲν τοῦ ἱεροῦ ὀστέου μέχρι τοῦ μεγάλου σπονδύλου κυφή‧ κύστισ τε καὶ γονὴ καὶ ἀρχοῦ τὸ ἐγκεκλιμένον, ἐν τούτῳ‧ ἀπὸ δὲ τούτου ἄχρι φρενῶν ἦλθεν ἡ ἰθύλορδοσ, καὶ αἱ ψόαι κατὰ τοῦτο‧ ἐντεῦθεν δὲ ἄχρι τοῦ μεγάλου σπονδύλου, τοῦ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐπωμίδων, ἰθυκυφήσ‧ ἔτι δὲ μᾶλλον δοκέει, ἢ ἐστίν‧ αἱ γὰρ ὄπισθεν τῶν σπονδύλων ἀποφύσιεσ ταύτῃ ὑψηλόταται‧ τὸ δὲ τοῦ αὐχένοσ ἄρθρον, λορδόν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., MOXLIKOS., 1.4)

Synonyms

  1. bent forwards

Related

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

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