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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

  • ἄλλοισ μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ὀλίγοισ ἐντύχοισ ἂν Ἠριδανοῖσ τισι καὶ οἷσ οὐκ ἤλεκτρον, ἀλλὰ χρυσὸσ αὐτὸσ ἀποστάζει τῶν λόγων, πολὺ τῶν κύκνων τῶν ποιητικῶν λιγυρωτέροισ· (Lucian, Electrum, (no name) 6:4)
  • καὶ αὖ ἐν ἄλλοισ ἔπεσι τῶν δ̓ ὥστ̓ ὀρνίθων πετεηνῶν φησίν ἔθνεα πολλά, χηνῶν ἢ γεράνων ἢ κύκνων δουλιχοδείρων. (Arrian, chapter 31 9:1)
  • βατράχων κύκνων θαυμαστά. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue 7:31)
  • οὗτοσ δὲ ἀγρὸν ὅλον παρ’ ἐμοῦ λαβὼν καὶ τῇ θυγατρὶ προῖκα δύο τάλαντα, μισθὸν τοῦ ἐπαίνου, ὁπότε ᾄσαντά με πάντων σιωπώντων μόνοσ ὑπερεπῄνεσεν ἐπομοσάμενοσ ᾠδικώτερον εἶναι τῶν κύκνων, ἐπειδὴ νοσοῦντα πρῴην εἶδέ με καὶ προσῆλθον ἐπικουρίασ δεόμενοσ, πληγὰσ ὁ γενναῖοσ προσενέτεινεν. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 46:2)
  • καθίπτασθαι δὲ καὶ κύκνων πλῆθοσ εἰσ αὐτήν, ὡσ γίνεσθαι ἐπιτερπεστάτην τὴν θέαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 59 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. type of ship

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