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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κωπεύς κωπή κωπής
Genitive κωπέως κωπέοιν κωπέων
Dative κωπεί κωπέοιν κωπεῦσιν*
Accusative κωπέα κωπή κωπέᾱς
Vocative κωπεύ κωπή κωπής

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

  • εἶτ’ ἀμφίχρυσον φάσγανον κώπησ λαβὼν ἐξεῖλκε κολεοῦ, λογάσι δ’ Ἀργείων στρατοῦ νεανίαισ ἔνευσε παρθένον λαβεῖν. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:16)
  • τοιαῦτ’ ἀπήντηκ’ ἐσ τοιαυτὶ πράγματα, ὅτε γ’ ὢν ἐγὼ πρόβουλοσ, ἐκπορίσασ ὅπωσ κωπῆσ ἔσονται, τἀργυρίου νυνὶ δέον, ὑπὸ τῶν γυναικῶν ἀποκέκλῃμαι ταῖσ πύλαισ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Episode17)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἤντλησα καὶ τῆσ κώπησ συνεπελαβόμην καὶ οὐκ ἔκλαον μόνοσ τῶν ἄλλων ἐπιβατῶν. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:11)
  • "νὴ Δία, φήσει τισ, ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ τῷ πύργῳ προσελθὼν καὶ τῆσ κώπησ ἁψάμενοσ ἀποφανοῦμαι τὴν μὲν εὐθεῖαν εἶναι τὸν δὲ πολύγωνον· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 2512)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ φέγγοσ ἡλίου κατέφθιτο καὶ νὺξ ἐπῄει, πᾶσ ἀνὴρ κώπησ ἄναξ ἐσ ναῦν ἐχώρει πᾶσ θ’ ὅπλων ἐπιστάτησ· (Aeschylus, Persians, episode 2:8)

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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