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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

  • ὅπωσ μὴ ταῦτα λέγῃσ ποτέ, πάνυ εὔλογα, ἢν λέγηται, καὶ ἄφυκτα ἡμῖν, ὡσ οὐκ ἀδικοῦμεν μὴ προμηνύσαντεσ, ἄκουσον ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἁπάντων, καὶ τὸ δίκτυόν τε αὐτὸ καὶ τῶν κύρτων τὸ ἀδιέξοδον ἔκτοσθεν ἐπὶ σχολῆσ, ἀλλὰ μὴ ἔνδοθεν ἐκ τοῦ μυχοῦ προεπισκόπησον, καὶ τοῦ ἀγκίστρου δὲ τὸ ἀγκύλον καὶ τὴν εἰσ τὸ ἔμπαλιν τοῦ σκόλοποσ ἀναστροφὴν καὶ τῆσ τριαίνησ τὰσ ἀκμὰσ εἰσ τὰσ χεῖρασ λαβὼν καὶ πρὸσ τὴν γνάθον πεφυσημένην ἀποπειρώμενοσ, ἢν μὴ πάνυ ὀξέα μηδὲ ἄφυκτα μηδὲ ἀνιαρὰ ἐν τοῖσ τραύμασι φαίνηται βιαίωσ σπῶντα καὶ ἀμάχωσ ἀντιλαμβανόμενα, ἡμᾶσ μὲν ἐν τοῖσ δειλοῖσ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο πεινῶσιν ἀνάγραφε, σεαυτὸν δὲ παρακαλέσασ θαρρεῖν ἐπιχείρει τῇ ἄγρᾳ, εἰ θέλεισ, καθάπερ ὁ λάροσ ὅλον περιχανὼν τὸ δέλεαρ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 3:4)
  • ταύρειοσ δὲ ποὺσ οὐκ ἤθελ’ ὀρθὸσ σανίδα προσβῆναι κάτα, ἀλλ’ ἐξεβρυχᾶτ’ ὄμμ’ ἀναστρέφων κύκλῳ κυρτῶν τε νῶτα κἀσ κέρασ παρεμβλέπων μὴ θιγγάνειν ἀπεῖργεν. (Euripides, Helen, episode 2:2)
  • "ἐπὶ τῶν κυρτῶν κατόπτρων, ὅταν ἐμφάσεισ ποιῇ μείζονασ ἑαυτῶν πρὸσ ἓν τὸ τῆσ ὄψεωσ σημεῖον, διαβάλλεται δὲ τοῖσ διπτύχοισ κατόπτροισ, ὧν ἐπικλιθέντων πρὸσ ἄλληλα καὶ γωνίασ ἐντὸσ γενομένησ, ἑκάτερον τῶν ἐπιπέδων. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 17 4:4)
  • ἡ δὲ ἑτέρη, τὸν κάτω λοβὸν τὸν πέμπτον διαπερήνασα μέχρι τῶν κυρτῶν, ἐπὶ τὴν Ῥάχιν ἔξεισι, καὶ τῇδε παρατέταται μέχρι τῶν ἰσχίων. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 168)
  • Στείχεισ δή, κυρτών, εἰσ Αἰ̈́δαο δόμουσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , unknown4)

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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