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κύριος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύριος κυρίου

Structure: κυρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. lord, master, guardian, ruler, owner
  2. sir
  3. Greek translation of יהוה in LXX

Declension

Second 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

  • καὶ ἐξέλεξε Βακχίδησ τοὺσ ἀσεβεῖσ ἄνδρασ καὶ κατέστησεν αὐτοὺσ κυρίουσ τῆσ χώρασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 9:25)
  • καὶ συντάξεισ αὐτοῖσ πρὸσ τοὺσ κυρίουσ αὐτῶν εἰπεῖν. οὕτωσ εἶπε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ Ἰσραήλ. οὕτωσ ἐρεῖτε πρὸσ τοὺσ κυρίουσ ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 34:3)
  • "οὐ γὰρ δὴ ἐντρυφᾶν σοι δοτέον τοῖσ νόμοισ οὐδὲ πρὸσ τὰσ σὰσ μεταβολὰσ συνάγεσθαι τὰ δικαστήρια, οὐδὲ ἄρτι μὲν λύεσθαι ἄρτι δὲ κυρίουσ εἶναι τοὺσ νόμουσ καὶ τοὺσ δικαστὰσ καθῆσθαι μάρτυρασ, μᾶλλον δὲ ὑπηρέτασ, τῶν σοὶ δοκούντων, ὁτὲ μὲν κολάζοντασ ὁτὲ δὲ διαλλάττοντασ, ὁπόταν σοι δοκῇ. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 10:6)
  • καὶ τοῖσ μὲν πρὸσ ἄλλο τι τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀπλήστωσ διακειμένοισ ἀχθόμεθα, τοὺσ δὲ τιμὴν μείζω τῆσ ὑπαρχούσησ ἀπὶ κτωμένουσ ἐπαινοῦμεν, καὶ ὅτι τῶν μὲν ἄλλων, ἐφ’ οἷσ εἰσιν ἀνθρώπιναι σπουδαί, πλούτου καὶ ἀρχῆσ καὶ δυναστείασ, πολλάκισ τοὺσ ἐχθροὺσ συμβαίνει γίγνεσθαι κυρίουσ, τῆσ δὲ ἀρετῆσ καὶ τῆσ παρὰ τοῖσ πλήθεσιν εὐνοίασ τοὺσ οἰκείουσ ἑκάστου κληρονομεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 6 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. lord

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