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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

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

  • βούλομαι δὲ εἰπεῖν καὶ τῶν ἐπισήμων οὕστινασ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ἐθεασάμην πάντασ μὲν τοὺσ ἡμιθέουσ καὶ τοὺσ ἐπὶ Ἴλιον στρατεύσαντασ πλήν γε δὴ τοῦ Λοκροῦ Αἰάντοσ, ἐκεῖνον δὲ μόνον ἔφασκον ἐν τῷ τῶν ἀσεβῶν χώρῳ κολάζεσθαι, βαρβάρων δὲ Κύρουσ τε ἀμφοτέρουσ καὶ τὸν Σκύθην Ἀνάχαρσιν καὶ τὸν Θρᾷκα Ζάμολξιν; (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 17:1)

Synonyms

  1. supreme power

Related

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

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