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κύριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύριος κυρίᾱ κύριον

Structure: κυρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ku=ros

Sense

  1. (of people): ruling, governing, having power
  2. (of things): decisive, critical, authorized, valid, legal, entitled
  3. (of times): fixed, set, appointed
  4. (of language): literal
  5. main, major, primary, principal

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative κύριος κυρίᾱ κύριον
Genitive κυρίου κυρίᾱς κυρίου
Dative κυρίῳ κυρίᾱͅ κυρίῳ
Accusative κύριον κυρίᾱν κύριον
Vocative κύριε κυρίᾱ κύριον
DualN/A/V κυρίω κυρίᾱ κυρίω
G/D κυρίοιν κυρίαιν κυρίοιν
PluralNominative κύριοι κυρίαι κύρια
Genitive κυρίων κυριῶν κυρίων
Dative κυρίοις κυρίαις κυρίοις
Accusative κυρίους κυρίᾱς κύρια
Vocative κύριοι κυρίαι κύρια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective κύριος κυρίου κυριώτερος κυριωτέρου κυριώτατος κυριωτάτου
Adverb κυρίως κυριώτερον κυριώτατα

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

  • ἔχει δὲ σύμφυτον ἔρωτα τοῦ πρώτου καὶ κυριωτάτου πάντων, ὃ τἀγαθῷ ταὐτόν ἐστι κἀκεῖνο ποθεῖ καὶ διώκει· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 53 1:1)
  • ἐπειδὴ πᾶσαν πόλιν ὁρῶμεν κοινωνίαν τινὰ οὖσαν καὶ πᾶσαν κοινωνίαν ἀγαθοῦ τινοσ ἕνεκεν συνεστηκυῖαν τοῦ γὰρ εἶναι δοκοῦντοσ ἀγαθοῦ χάριν πάντα πράττουσι πάντεσ, δῆλον ὡσ πᾶσαι μὲν ἀγαθοῦ τινοσ στοχάζονται, μάλιστα δὲ καὶ τοῦ κυριωτάτου πάντων ἡ πασῶν κυριωτάτη καὶ πάσασ περιέχουσα τὰσ ἄλλασ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 3:1)
  • τὸ δὲ δὴ περὶ τοῦ κυριωτάτου παρ’ ἡμῖν ψυχῆσ εἴδουσ διανοεῖσθαι δεῖ τῇδε, ὡσ ἄρα αὐτὸ δαίμονα θεὸσ ἑκάστῳ δέδωκεν, τοῦτο ὃ δή φαμεν οἰκεῖν μὲν ἡμῶν ἐπ’ ἄκρῳ τῷ σώματι, πρὸσ δὲ τὴν ἐν οὐρανῷ συγγένειαν ἀπὸ γῆσ ἡμᾶσ αἴρειν ὡσ ὄντασ φυτὸν οὐκ ἔγγειον ἀλλὰ οὐράνιον, ὀρθότατα λέγοντεσ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 477:2)
  • ἐνταῦθα οὖν μόνον ἐπὶ τοῦ μεγίστου καὶ κυριωτάτου, τῆσ ἐλευθερίασ, ὡσ ἔτυχεν ἐφεῖταί μοι θέλειν; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 15:1)
  • ἐκινεῖτο δὲ καὶ κατὰ τὰ ἄλλα τῆσ Ιοὐδαίασ κλίματα τὸ τέωσ ἠρεμοῦν τὸ λῃστρικόν, καθάπερ δὲ ἐν σώματι τοῦ κυριωτάτου φλεγμαίνοντοσ πάντα τὰ μέλη συνενόσει· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 459:1)

Synonyms

  2. main

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