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κύρτη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύρτη

Structure: κυρτ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from kurto/s

Sense

a fishing-basket
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

ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ κύρτη σιδηρᾶ ἀγγεῖόν τι, οἱο͂ν οἰκίσκοσ ὀρνίθειοσ, παρὰ Ἡροδότῳ καὶ Ἀρχιλόχῳ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , unknown167)
κατακληίσαντεσ γὰρ ἂν πάσασ τὰσ ἐσ τὸν ποταμὸν πυλίδασ ἐχούσασ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐπὶ τὰσ αἱμασιὰσ ἀναβάντεσ τὰσ παρὰ τὰ χείλεα τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἐληλαμένασ, ἔλαβον ἂν σφέασ ὡσ ἐν κύρτῃ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 191 6:2)
πᾶσ δέ οἱ αὐχὴν θυμοῦ ἐνεπλήσθη, πυρσαὶ δ’ ἔφριξαν ἔθειραι σκυζομένῳ, κυρτὴ δὲ ῥάχισ γένετ’ ἠύτε τόξον, πάντοθεν εἰληθέντοσ ὑπὸ λαγόνασ τε καὶ ἰξύν. (Theocritus, Idylls, 104)
τῶν δὲ πλευρῶν, ἃσ ἀφορίζουσιν αἱ τρεῖσ ἄκραι, δύο μέν εἰσι κοῖλαι μετρίωσ, ἡ δὲ τρίτη κυρτή, ἡ ἀπὸ τοῦ Λιλυβαίου καθήκουσα πρὸσ τὴν Πελωριάδα, ἥπερ μεγίστη ἐστί, σταδίων χιλίων καὶ ἑπτακοσίων, ὡσ Ποσειδώνιοσ εἴρηκε προσθεὶσ καὶ εἴκοσι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2 2:4)
συνάπτει δὲ τῇ ἠπείρῳ κατὰ Χαλκίδα μάλιστα, κυρτὴ προπίπτουσα πρὸσ τοὺσ κατὰ τὴν Αὐλίδα τόπουσ τῆσ Βοιωτίασ καὶ ποιοῦσα τὸν Εὔριπον, περὶ οὗ διὰ πλειόνων εἰρήκαμεν, σχεδὸν δέ τι καὶ περὶ τῶν ἀντιπόρθμων ἀλλήλοισ τόπων κατά τε τὴν ἤπειρον καὶ κατὰ τὴν νῆσον ἐφ’ ἑκάτερα τοῦ Εὐρίπου, τά τε ἐντὸσ καὶ τὰ ἐκτόσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 1 3:5)

Synonyms

a fishing-basket
- γρῖφος (a fishing-basket, creel)
- σαργάνη (a basket)
- τάλαρος (a basket, a basket)
- κόφινος (basket)
- ἁλιεία (fishing)
- λυχνίσκος (fish)
- κέστρα (a fish)
- ἰχθῡ́ς (fish)
- φορμός (a basket for carrying)
a bird-cage
- κλωβός (a bird-cage)
- ἀμπελίς (the bird)
- ὄρνεον (a bird)
- ὄρνις (bird)
- πετεινόν (a bird)
- εἰργμός (a cage, prison)

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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κύρτη

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a bird-cage

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κύρτη

Sense

Declension

Examples

Synonyms

a fishing-basket

a bird-cage

Similar forms

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