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κύρμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύρμα κύρματος

Structure: κυρματ (Stem)

Etym.: ku/rw

Sense

  1. that which one meets with or finds, booty, prey, spoil
  2. one who gets booty, a swindler

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κύρμα κύρματε κύρματα
Genitive κύρματος κυρμάτοιν κυρμάτων
Dative κύρματι κυρμάτοιν κύρμασιν*
Accusative κύρμα κύρματε κύρματα
Vocative κύρμα κύρματε κύρματα

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

  • πυκνότατον κίναδοσ, σόφισμα κύρμα τρῖμμα παιπάλημ’ ὅλον. (Aristophanes, Birds, Choral, lyric15)
  • τοὶ δ’ ἔμπαλιν, αἰγιαλοῖο κράατα μὲν ψαμάθοισι, πόδασ δ’ εἰσ βένθοσ ἔρειδον, ἄμφω ἅμ’ οἰωνοῖσι καὶ ἰχθύσι κύρμα γενέσθαι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 17:21)
  • τούτοισ τοῖσ παρὰ δεῖπνον ἀοιδομάχοισ λογολέσχαισ, τοῖσ ἀπ’ Ἀριστάρχου γραμματολικριφίσιν, οἷσ οὐ σκῶμμα λέγειν, οὐ πεῖν φίλον, ἀλλ’ ἀνάκεινται νηπυτιευόμενοι Νέστορι καὶ Πριάμῳ, μή με βάλῃσ κατὰ λέξιν ἕλωρ καὶ κύρμα γενέσθαι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 1401)
  • μὴ θάπτειν τὸν ἄθαπτον, ἐά κυσὶ κύρμα γενέσθαι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 4981)
  • κἀγὼ μὲν πόντῳ δινεύμενοσ, ἰχθύσι κύρμα, οἴχημαι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 273 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. that which one meets with or finds

Related

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

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