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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

  • δι’ ἃ καὶ ἐπείπερ γεγένησθε, ἀθάνατοι μὲν οὐκ ἐστὲ οὐδ’ ἄλυτοι τὸ πάμπαν, οὔτι μὲν δὴ λυθήσεσθέ γε οὐδὲ τεύξεσθε θανάτου μοίρασ, τῆσ ἐμῆσ βουλήσεωσ μείζονοσ ἔτι δεσμοῦ καὶ κυριωτέρου λαχόντεσ ἐκείνων οἷσ ὅτ’ ἐγίγνεσθε συνεδεῖσθε. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 148:1)
  • ἢ παρὰ τίνοσ κυριωτέρου καὶ μείζονοσ ἢ παρὰ τοῦ Ῥοδίων δήμου καὶ τῆσ ὑμετέρασ πόλεωσ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 66:2)
  • ἢ δῆλον ὅτι ἀπὸ τοῦ κυριωτέρου καὶ περιέχοντοσ οὐ μόνον αὐτὴν ἐκείνην τὴν γωνίαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὅλην σου τὴν οἰκίαν καὶ ἁπλῶσ ὅθεν σου τὸ γένοσ τῶν προγόνων εἰσ σὲ κατελήλυθεν ἐντεῦθέν ποθεν καλεῖσ σεαυτὸν Ἀθηναῖον καὶ Κορίνθιον; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 3:1)
  • τὴν δὲ στήλην κατεσκεύασεν ἔχουσαν αἰδοῖον ἐν μὲν τοῖσ μαχίμοισ ἔθνεσιν ἀνδρόσ, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ ἀγεννέσι καὶ δειλοῖσ γυναικόσ, ἀπὸ τοῦ κυριωτέρου μέρουσ τὴν διάθεσιν τῆσ ἑκάστων ψυχῆσ φανερωτάτην τοῖσ ἐπιγινομένοισ ἔσεσθαι νομίζων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 55 8:1)

Synonyms

  2. main

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