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κῦρος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κῦρος κῦρεος

Structure: κῡρο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. supreme power, authority

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κῦρος κῡ́ρει κῡ́ρη
Genitive κῡ́ρους κῡ́ροιν κῡρέων
Dative κῡ́ρει κῡ́ροιν κῡ́ρεσιν*
Accusative κῦρος κῡ́ρει κῡ́ρη
Vocative κῦρος κῡ́ρει κῡ́ρη

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

  • ἕτερα δ’ ἀφ’ ἑτέρων κακὰ κακῶν κυρεῖ· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:6)
  • κυρεῖ δ’ Ἀγαύη πλησίον θρῴσκουσά μου· (Euripides, episode, trochees 7:1)
  • ὁ κατθανὼν δὲ σὸσ πατὴρ τύμβου κυρεῖ; (Euripides, episode 1:33)
  • ‐ τοῦ ποτ’, Ἠλέκτρα, τόδε παλαιὸν ἀνδρὸσ λείψανον φίλων κυρεῖ; (Euripides, episode 3:8)
  • κυρεῖ δὲ κήποισ ἐν καταρρύτοισ βεβώσ, δρέπων τερείνησ μυρσίνησ κάρᾳ πλόκουσ· (Euripides, episode 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. supreme power

Related

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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