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κωπεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωπεύς κωπέως

Structure: κωπευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. pieces of wood fit for making oars, oar-spars

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

  • οὔ τοι μακρὸν μὲν ἤλθομεν κώπῃ πόρον, ἐκ τερμάτων δὲ νόστον ἀροῦμεν πάλιν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 6:14)
  • ναῦται δ’ ἐπευφήμησαν εὐχαῖσιν κόρησ παιᾶνα, γυμνὰσ ἐκ <πέπλων> ἐπωμίδασ κώπῃ προσαρμόσαντεσ ἐκ κελεύσματοσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 7:10)
  • πλεῖστον γὰρ οἶμαι ‐ καὶ τόδ’ οὐ κόμπῳ λέγω ‐ στράτευμα κώπῃ διορίσαι Τροίαν ἔπι, τύραννοσ οὐδὲν πρὸσ βίαν στρατηλατῶν, ἑκοῦσι δ’ ἄρξασ Ἑλλάδοσ νεανίαισ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue2)
  • Φοίνισσα κώπη ταχύποροσ γενήσεται. (Euripides, Helen, episode 4:29)
  • "οἱ γάρ, εἰδώλου προσπίπτοντοσ ἡμῖν περιφεροῦσ ἑτέρου δὲ κεκλασμένου, τὴν μὲν αἴσθησιν ἀληθῶσ τυποῦσθαι λέγοντεσ, προσαποφαίνεσθαι δ’ οὐκ ἐῶντεσ ὅτι στρογγύλοσ ὁ πύργοσ ἐστὶν ἡ δὲ κώπη κέκλασται, τὰ πάθη τὰ αὑτῶν καὶ τὰ φαντάσματα βεβαιοῦσι τὰ δ’ ἐκτὸσ οὕτωσ ἔχειν ὁμολογεῖν οὐκ ἐθέλουσιν ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἐκείνοισ τὸ ἱπποῦσθαι καὶ τὸ τοιχοῦσθαι λεκτέον οὐχ ἵππον οὐδὲ τοῖχον, οὕτωσ ἄρα τὸ στρογγυλοῦσθαι καὶ τὸ σκαληνοῦσθαι τὴν ὄψιν, οὐ σκαληνὸν οὐδὲ στρογγύλον ἀνάγκη τὴν κώπην καὶ τὸν πύργον λέγειν· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 253)

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

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