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κυλίνδησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυλίνδησις κυλίνδησεως

Structure: κυλινδησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a rolling, wallowing

Declension

Third 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

  • τοῖσ μὲν οὖν πολλοῖσ ἐκ τούτων ἀπηχθάνετο, τοῖσ δὲ χρηστοῖσ καὶ σώφροσι διὰ τὸν ἄλλον βίον οὐκ ἦν ἀρεστόσ, ὡσ Κικέρων φησίν, ἀλλ’ ἐμισεῖτο, βδελυττομένων αὐτοῦ μέθασ ἀώρουσ καὶ δαπάνασ ἐπαχθεῖσ καὶ κυλινδήσεισ ἐν γυναίοισ, καὶ μεθ’ ἡμέραν μὲν ὕπνουσ καὶ περιπάτουσ ἀλύοντοσ καὶ κραιπαλῶντοσ, νύκτωρ δὲ κώμουσ καὶ θέατρα καὶ διατριβὰσ ἐν γάμοισ μίμων καὶ γελωτοποιῶν. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 9 3:1)
  • τὸ δὲ θατέρου σχῆμα διὰ τὴν ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ κυλίνδησιν ἔχει πολλὴν ὑποψίαν καὶ φόβον ὡσ ἀγνοεῖ ταῦτα ἃ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ὡσ εἰδὼσ ἐσχημάτισται. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 312:1)

Synonyms

  1. a rolling

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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