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κώκυμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κώκυμα κώκυματος

Structure: κωκυματ (Stem)

Etym.: from kwku/w

Sense

  1. a shriek, wail

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κώκυμα κωκύματε κωκύματα
Genitive κωκύματος κωκυμάτοιν κωκυμάτων
Dative κωκύματι κωκυμάτοιν κωκύμασιν*
Accusative κώκυμα κωκύματε κωκύματα
Vocative κώκυμα κωκύματε κωκύματα

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

  • οἰμωγὴ δ’ ὁμοῦ κωκύμασιν κατεῖχε πελαγίαν ἅλα, ἑώσ κελαινῆσ νυκτὸσ ὄμμ’ ἀφείλετο. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode 3:12)

Synonyms

  1. a shriek

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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