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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

  • Ἢν δὲ μὴ ἐπισφακελίσῃ αὐτοῖσι τὰ ὀστέα, μηδὲ κυφοὶ ἀνωτέρω τῶν ἰσχίων γένωνται ἑ̓νίουσ γὰρ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα καταλαμβάνεἰ, ἢν οὖν μὴ τοιοῦτόν τι γένηται, ἱκανῶσ ὑγιηροὶ τἄλλα διαφέρονται‧ ἀναυξέστεροι μέντοι τὸ πᾶν σῶμα οὗτοι γίνονται, πλὴν τῆσ κεφαλῆσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 56.2)
  • Εἰ κυφοὶ τὰ ἄνωθεν ἰσχίων γένοιντο, ὑγιηροὶ μὲν, ἀναυξέεσ δὲ τὸ σῶμα, πλὴν κεφαλῆσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., MOXLIKOS., 22.2)
  • Ἢν δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίην ποιήσηται ὁ κατάῤῬοοσ τὴν πορείην, παλμὸσ ἐπιλαμβάνει καὶ ἄσθματα, καὶ τὰ στήθεα διαφθείρεται, ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ κυφοὶ γίνονται‧ ὁκόταν γὰρ ἐπικατέλθῃ τὸ φλέγμα ψυχρὸν ἐπὶ τὸν πλεύμονα ἢ ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίην, ἀποψύχεται τὸ αἷμα‧ αἱ δὲ φλέβεσ πρὸσ βίην ψυχόμεναι πρὸσ τῷ πλεύμονι καὶ τῇ καρδίῃ πηδῶσι, καὶ ἡ καρδίη πάλλεται, ὥστε ὑπὸ τῆσ ἀνάγκησ ταύτησ τὰ ἄσθματα ἐπιπίπτειν καὶ τὴν ὀρθοπνοίην. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 6.1)

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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