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κύκνος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύκνος κύκνου

Structure: κυκν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. swan
  2. type of ship

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κύκνος κύκνω κύκνοι
Genitive κύκνου κύκνοιν κύκνων
Dative κύκνῳ κύκνοιν κύκνοις
Accusative κύκνον κύκνω κύκνους
Vocative κύκνε κύκνω κύκνοι

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

  • νιφάδεσσι γὰρ ἐοικότα χειμερίῃσι διεξέρχονται, οὐδ’ ἀποχρήσει σοι κύκνοισ κατὰ τὴν ἡλικίαν εἰκάσαι αὐτούσ, ἀλλὰ τεττιγῶδέσ τι πυκνὸν καὶ ἐπίτροχον συνάπτουσιν ἄχρι βαθείασ ἑσπέρασ. (Lucian, (no name) 7:4)
  • ὁπόταν δὲ καὶ τὸ καλὸν ἐκεῖνο ᾄδῃ, καὶ μάλιστα πρὸσ τὴν κιθάραν, τότε δὴ τότε ^ ὡρ́α μὲν σιωπᾶν τάχιστα ^ ἀλκυόσι καὶ τέττιξι καὶ τοῖσ κύκνοισ· (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 13:4)
  • οὕτωσ, ἐπεὶ τὸ πράττειν καὶ λέγειν μᾶλλον ἀνθρώποισ ἢ κύκνοισ τὸ ᾄδειν ἄχρι τελευτῆσ κατὰ φύσιν ἔστιν, οὐκ ἀφετέον τὴν πρᾶξιν ὥσπερ τινὰ λύραν σύντονον ἀλλ’ ἀνετέον ἐπὶ τὰ κοῦφα καὶ μέτρια καὶ προσῳδὰ πρεσβύταισ πολιτεύματα μεθαρμοττομένουσ. (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 18 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. type of ship

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