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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

  • κυρταὶ δ’ ὁμοῦ καρῖδεσ ἐν ξηρῷ πέδω. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 66 3:6)
  • ὠρχοῦντο δ’ ὡσ καρῖδεσ ἀνθράκων ἔπι πηδῶσι κυρταί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 66 3:8)
  • ὀφθαλμῶν τὰ μέλανα στιλπνά· τὰ δὲ λευκὰ, λευκότα τα καὶ πίονα· μῆλα ἐρευθῆ, φλέβεσ ἐν τῷ προσώπῳ κυρταί. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 202)

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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