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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

  • "ἢ διότι μὴ τοιουτοσὶ γέρων ἐγενόμην οἱο͂σ εἶ σύ, φαλακρὸσ μὲν τὴν κεφαλήν, τὴν δ’ ὄψιν ἐρρυτιδωμένοσ, κυφὸσ καὶ τὰ γόνατα νωθήσ, καὶ ὅλωσ ὑπὸ τοῦ χρόνου σαθρὸσ πολλὰσ τριακάδασ καὶ ὀλυμπιάδασ ἀναπλήσασ, καὶ τὰ τελευταῖα δὴ ταῦτα παραπαίων ἐπὶ τοσούτων μαρτύρων ; (Lucian, (no name) 16:6)
  • ἦν γὰρ κυφὸσ ὑπὸ χρόνου. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , unknown5)
  • τοῖσι δ’ ἔπειθ’ ἡρ́ωσ Αἰγύπτιοσ ἦρχ’ ἀγορεύειν, ὃσ δὴ γήραϊ κυφὸσ ἐήν καὶ μυρία ᾔδη. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 2 1:8)
  • συν‐ αισθανόμενοσ ὅτι ἀποθνήσκει, ἐπῇδε πρὸσ ἑαυτὸν λέγων, στείχεισ δή, φίλε κυρτών, βαίνεισ τ’ εἰσ Αἰ̈́δαο δόμουσ κυφὸσ διὰ γῆρασ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. e'. KRATHS 8:5)
  • ἦν γὰρ κυφὸσ ὑπὸ χρόνου. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. e'. KRATHS 8:6)
  • Καὶ ὅσοισιν ἂν ᾖ ἀνωτέρω τῶν φρενῶν τὸ κῦφοσ, τούτοισι μὲν αἵ τε πλευραὶ οὐκ ἐθέλουσιν ἐσ τὸ εὐρὺ αὔξεσθαι, ἀλλ’ ἐσ τοὔμπροσθεν, τό τε στῆθοσ ὀξὺ γίνεται, ἀλλ’ οὐ πλατὺ, αὐτοί τε δύσπνοοι γίνονται, καὶ κερχώδεεσ‧ ἧσσον γὰρ εὐρυχωρίην ἔχουσιν αἱ κοιλίαι αἱ τὸ πνεῦμα δεχόμεναι καὶ προπέμπουσαι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 41.4)

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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