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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

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

  • τῆσ δὲ τούτων δαψιλείασ πολλῆσ οὔσησ, καταπλέξαντεσ ἐξ ἑκατέρου μέρουσ κύρτασ πρὸσ ἀλλήλασ νενευκυίασ, τῷ προσφάτῳ φύκει ταύτασ διαπλέκουσι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 19 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a fishing-basket

  2. a bird-cage

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

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