Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • τῷ γὰρ εἰκὸσ ἄνδρα κυφὸν ἡλίκον Θουκυδίδην ἐξολέσθαι συμπλακέντα τῇ Σκυθῶν ἐρημίᾳ, τῷδε τῷ Κηφισοδήμῳ τῷ λάλῳ ξυνηγόρῳ; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parabasis, antepirrhema1)
  • ἔχων ἀφῖκται δεῦρο πρεσβύτην τιν’ ὦ πόνηροι ῥυπῶντα κυφὸν ἄθλιον ῥυσὸν μαδῶντα νωδόν· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Parodos8)
  • κυφὸν γὰρ εἶναι τὸ κυρτόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 24 1:4)
  • τοῦτο πότερόν ἐστιν ταὐτὸν τῷ ἀλείσῳ καὶ τῷ δέπαι καὶ μόνον ὀνόματι διαλλάσσει ‐ τοὺσ μὲν ἄρα χρυσέοισι κυπέλλοισ υἱε͂σ Ἀχαιῶν δειδέχατ’ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλοσ ἀνασταδὸν ἢ διάφοροσ ἦν ὁ τύποσ καὶ οὐχ ὥσπερ τὸ δέπασ καὶ τὸ ἄλεισον ἀμφικύπελλον, οὕτω καὶ τοῦτο, κυφὸν δὲ μόνον; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 652)
  • ’" Εὔμολποσ δὲ ποτηρίου γένοσ, ἀπὸ τοῦ κυφὸν εἶναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 65 1:7)

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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