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κῦμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κῦμα κύματος

Structure: κυματ (Stem)

Etym.: ku/w

Sense

  1. swell, wave, billow, (figuratively) a wave or flood of men
  2. (in Tragedy) wave of adversity

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

  • ὁ δ̓ ἄρτι δοκῶν τοῖσ τῆσ θαλάσσησ κύμασιν ἐπιτάσσειν διὰ τὴν ὑπὲρ ἄνθρωπον ἀλαζονείαν καὶ πλάστιγγι τὰ τῶν ὀρέων οἰόμενοσ ὕψη στήσειν, κατὰ γῆν γενόμενοσ ἐν φορείῳ παρεκομίζετο, φανερὰν τοῦ Θεοῦ πᾶσι τὴν δύναμιν ἐνδεικνύμενοσ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:8)
  • ὡσ ναῦσ διερχομένη κυμαινόμενον ὕδωρ, ἧσ διαβάσησ οὐκ ἔστιν ἴχνοσ εὑρεῖν, οὐδὲ ἀτραπὸν τρόπιοσ αὐτῆσ ἐν κύμασιν. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 5:10)
  • διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ. ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ σέ, Σόρ, καὶ ἀνάξω ἐπὶ σὲ ἔθνη πολλά, ὡσ ἀναβαίνει ἡ θάλασσα τοῖσ κύμασιν αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 26:3)
  • δεινὸν δ’ ἐστὶ θανεῖν μετὰ κύμασιν. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 75:10)
  • οὔτε πόντοσ οὕτωσ κύμασιν στένων λάβρωσ οὔτε γῆσ σεισμὸσ κεραυνοῦ τ’ οἶστροσ ὠδῖνασ πνέων, οἷ’ ἐγὼ στάδια δραμοῦμαι στέρνον εἰσ Ἡρακλέουσ· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, trochees3)

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