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κύκλος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύκλος κύκλου

Structure: κυκλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. circle, ring
  2. Any circular object, such as a wheel
  3. A crowd of people
  4. marketplace
  5. circular movement
  6. sphere, globe

Declension

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

  • ἐν δὲ μέσῳ κατέλαμπε σάκει φαέθων κύκλοσ ἀελίοιο ἵπποισ ἂμ πτεροέσσαισ ἄστρων τ’ αἰθέριοι χοροί, Πλειάδεσ, Υἅδεσ, Ἕκτοροσ ὄμμασι τροπαῖοι· (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • κύκλοσ δὲ πανσέληνοσ ἠκόντιζ’ ἄνω μηνὸσ διχήρησ, Υἅδεσ τε, ναυτίλοισ σαφέστατον σημεῖον, ἥ τε φωσφόροσ Εὥσ διώκουσ’ ἄστρα. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:9)
  • ὅταν σελήνησ εὐτυχὴσ ἔλθῃ κύκλοσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 4:3)
  • ὀρθῷ μετρήσω κανόνι προστιθείσ, ἵνα ὁ κύκλοσ γένηται σοι τετράγωνοσ κἀν μέσῳ ἀγορά, φέρουσαι δ’ ὦσιν εἰσ αὐτὴν ὁδοὶ ὀρθαὶ πρὸσ αὐτὸ τὸ μέσον, ὥσπερ δ’ ἀστέροσ αὐτοῦ κυκλοτεροῦσ ὄντοσ ὀρθαὶ πανταχῇ ἀκτῖνεσ ἀπολάμπωσιν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:20)
  • "ἀληθήσ, ὅταν μὲν περὶ τὸ αἰσθητὸν γίγνηται καὶ ὁ τοῦ θατέρου κύκλοσ ὀρθὸσ ἰὼν εἰσ πᾶσαν αὐτοῦ τὴν ψυχὴν διαγγείλῃ, δόξαι καὶ πίστεισ γίγνονται βέβαιοι καὶ ἀληθεῖσ· (Plutarch, Compendium libri de animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 4 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. circle

  2. Any circular object

  3. circular movement

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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