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κυψέλη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυψέλη

Structure: κυψελ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. any hollow vessel: a chest, box

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἡμεῖσ ὥσπερ μύρμηκεσ ἢ μέλιτται μυρμηκιᾶσ μιᾶσ ἢ κυψέλησ ἐκπεσόντεσ ἀδημονοῦμεν καὶ ξενοπαθοῦμεν, οὐκ εἰδότεσ οὐδὲ μεμαθηκότεσ οἰκεῖα τὰ πάντα ποιεῖσθαι καὶ νομίζειν ὥσπερ ἐστί. (Plutarch, De exilio, section 6 3:1)
  • Ηἐτίωνι δὲ μετὰ ταῦτα ὁ παῖσ ηὐξάνετο, καί οἱ διαφυγόντι τοῦτον τὸν κίνδυνον ἀπὸ τῆσ κυψέλησ ἐπωνυμίην Κύψελοσ οὔνομα ἐτέθη. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 92E 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. any hollow vessel

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

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