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κώνωψ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κώνωψ κώνωπος

Structure: κωνωπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a gnat, mosquito

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ μὴν κἀκεῖνο πρόσεστιν αὐτῇ, τὸ μὴ καθ’ ἡσυχίαν, ἀλλὰ μετ’ ᾠδῆσ πέτεσθαι οὐκ ἀπηνοῦσ οἱά κωνώπων καὶ ἐμπίδων, οὐδὲ τὸ βαρύβρομον τῶν μελιττῶν ἢ τῶν σφηκῶν τὸ φοβερὸν καὶ ἀπειλητικὸν ἐνδεικνυμένησ, ἀλλὰ τοσοῦτόν ἐστι λιγυρωτέρα, ὅσον σάλπιγγοσ καὶ κυμβάλων αὐλοὶ μελιχρότεροι. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 2:2)
  • τελώνην δὲ ἵππον ἢ συκοφάντην βάτραχον ἢ σοφιστὴν κολοιὸν ἢ ὀψοποιὸν κώνωπα ἢ κίναιδον ἀλεκτρυόνα καὶ τἆλλα ὅσα ὑμεῖσ ἐπιτηδεύετε, οὐκ ἂν ἴδοισ ἐν ἐκείνοισ. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 27:3)
  • φθειρῶν τ’ ἀριθμὸν καὶ κωνώπων καὶ ψυλλῶν οὐδὲ λέγω σοι ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθουσ, αἳ βομβοῦσαι περὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀνιῶσιν, ἐπεγείρουσαι καὶ φράζουσαι, πεινήσεισ, ἀλλ’ ἐπανίστω. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme 1:3)
  • ἔτι δὲ εἴσῃ αὐτίκα μάλα παρ’ αὐτοῦ πόσον μὲν ὁ κώνωψ βιοῖ τὸν χρόνον, ἐφ’ ὁπόσον δὲ βάθοσ ἡ θάλαττα ὑπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου καταλάμπεται, καὶ ὁποία τίσ ἐστιν ἡ ψυχὴ τῶν ὀστρείων. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 25:18)
  • οἰόμαι τῶν κωνώπων διαφέρειν χαίρουσι γὰρ λάμπῃ καὶ ὄξει, τὸν δὲ πότιμον καὶ χρηστὸν οἶνον ἀποπετόμενοι φεύγουσιν. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 28 4:1)
  • τὴν μικρὴν παίζουσαν Ἐρώτιον ἡρ́πασε κώνωψ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 881)
  • θᾶττον ποιήσει μέλι κάνθαροσ ἢ γάλα κώνωψ, ἢ σύ τι ποιήσεισ, σκορπίοσ ὤν, ἀγαθόν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 2271)
  • εἰ δ’ ἕτερον κρίναισ ἐμέθεν πλέον, ἀμφὶ σὲ βαίη κώνωψ ὀξηρῷ τυφόμενοσ κεράμῳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1082)
  • οὐδέ μέ τισ λήσειε, καὶ εἰ βραχὺσ ἔπλετο, κώνωψ ἡμετέρησ διαδὺσ πλέγμα λινοστασίησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 766 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a gnat

Related

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

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