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κύρτη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύρτη

Structure: κυρτ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from kurto/s

Sense

  1. a fishing-basket
  2. a bird-cage

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κύρτη κύρτᾱ κύρται
Genitive κύρτης κύρταιν κυρτῶν
Dative κύρτῃ κύρταιν κύρταις
Accusative κύρτην κύρτᾱ κύρτᾱς
Vocative κύρτη κύρτᾱ κύρται

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

  • "τὰ δὲ κυρτὰ καὶ τὰ σφαιροειδῆ τῷ μὴ πανταχόθεν ἀντερείδειν ἀσθενῆ καὶ ἀμαυράν. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 23 6:15)
  • κυρτά, φαληριόωντα· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 11 4:2)
  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἄνω τὸν πρῶτον λοβὸν διαπερήσασα ἐσ τὰ κυρτὰ αὐτέου ἐξεφαάνθη· ἔπειτα περήνασα τὸ διάφραγμα ἐμφύνει τῇ καρδίῃ· κοίλη φλὲψ ἥδε καλέεται. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 167)
  • Ἢν μὲν γὰρ ἀπαιωρῆται ὁ ποὺσ, τῆσ ἄλλησ κνήμησ ἡρματισμένησ, ἀνάγκη κατὰ τὸ ἀντικνήμιον τὰ ὀστέα κυρτὰ φαίνεσθαι‧ ἢν δὲ ἡ μὲν πτέρνη ὑψηλοτέρη ᾖ τοῦ μετρίου ἡρματισμένη, ἡ δὲ ἄλλη κνήμη ὑπομετέωροσ ᾖ, ἀνάγκη τὸ ὀστέον τοῦτο κατὰ τὸ ἀντικνήμιον κοιλότερον φανῆναι τοῦ μετρίου, προσέτι καὶ ἢν ἡ πτέρνη τυγχάνῃ ἐοῦσα τοῦ ἀνθρώπου φύσει μεγάλη. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 23.2)
  • Ὁκόσα δὲ κυρτὰ καὶ ἄσαρκα φύσει, φυλασσόμενον τῶν ὑπερεχόντων, οἱο͂ν κατὰ δακτύλουσ ἢ σφυρὰ, ἢ τῇ θέσει, ἢ τῇ βραχύτητι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., KAT' IHTREION., 12.7)

Synonyms

  1. a fishing-basket

  2. a bird-cage

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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