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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

  • καρῖδάσ τε τῶν κυφῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 66 3:4)
  • Ὅσοισι δὲ κατωτέρω τῶν φρενῶν τὸ κύφωμά ἐστι, τούτοισι νοσήματα μὲν ἐνίοισι προσγίνεται νεφριτικὰ, καὶ κατὰ κύστιν‧ ἀτὰρ καὶ ἀποστάσιεσ ἐμπυήματι καὶ κατὰ κενεῶνασ, καὶ κατὰ βουβῶνασ, χρόνιαι καὶ δυσαλθέεσ, καὶ τουτέων οὐδετέρη λύει τὰ κυφώματα‧ ἰσχία δὲ τοῖσι τοιουτέοισιν ἔτι ἀσαρκότερα γίνεται, ἢ τοῖσιν ἄνωθεν κυφοῖσιν‧ ἡ μέντοι ξύμπασα Ῥάχισ μακροτέρη τουτέοισιν, ἢ τοῖσιν ἄνωθεν κυφοῖσιν‧ ἥβη δὲ καὶ γένειον βραδύτερα καὶ ἀτελέστερα, καὶ ἀγονώτεροι οὗτοι τῶν ἄνωθεν κυφῶν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 41.7)
  • ἐσ τὸν κύφων’· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, pnigos8)
  • κύφων . (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , unknown168)
  • καί μοι κραδίην ἐπάταξε μέλαιναν ὅττι μοι εὐανθεῖσ ἄλλοι ἔχουσιν ἀγρούσ, οὐδ’ ἐμοὶ ἡμίονοι κύφων’ ἕλκουσιν ἀρότρου, τῆσ μάλα μισητῆσ εἵνεκα ναυτιλίησ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389713)

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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