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κύμβαχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύμβαχος κύμβαχον

Structure: κυμβαχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ku/ptw

Sense

  1. head-foremost
  2. the crown of a helmet

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative κύμβαχος κύμβαχον
Genitive κυμβάχου κυμβάχου
Dative κυμβάχῳ κυμβάχῳ
Accusative κύμβαχον κύμβαχον
Vocative κύμβαχε κύμβαχον
DualN/A/V κυμβάχω κυμβάχω
G/D κυμβάχοιν κυμβάχοιν
PluralNominative κύμβαχοι κύμβαχα
Genitive κυμβάχων κυμβάχων
Dative κυμβάχοις κυμβάχοις
Accusative κυμβάχους κύμβαχα
Vocative κύμβαχοι κύμβαχα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective κύμβαχος κυμβάχου κυμβαχώτερος κυμβαχωτέρου κυμβαχώτατος κυμβαχωτάτου
Adverb κυμβάχως κυμβαχώτερον κυμβαχώτατα

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

  • αὐτὰρ ὅ γ’ ἀσθμαίνων εὐεργέοσ ἔκπεσε δίφρου κύμβαχοσ ἐν κονίῃσιν ἐπὶ βρεχμόν τε καὶ ὤμουσ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 60:8)
  • τοῦ δὲ Μέγησ κόρυθοσ χαλκήρεοσ ἱπποδασείησ κύμβαχον ἀκρότατον νύξ’ ἔγχεϊ ὀξυόεντι, ῥῆξε δ’ ἀφ’ ἵππειον λόφον αὐτοῦ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 15 56:16)

Synonyms

  1. head-foremost

  2. the crown of a helmet

Similar forms

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

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