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λάρναξ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λάρναξ λάρνακος

Structure: λαρνακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a coffer, box, chest
  2. a cinerary urn or coffin
  3. an ark

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 ἐν μιῇ λάρνακι πάντεσ ἔπλευσαν ἔστε τὸ ὕδωρ ἐπεκράτεεν τὰ μὲν Δευκαλίωνοσ πέρι Ἕλληνεσ ἱστορέουσι. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 12:12)
  • ὅτε λάρνακι ἐν δαιδαλέᾳ ἄνεμόσ τε μιν πνέων ἐφόρει κινηθεῖσά τε λίμνα, δείματι φρίττεν οὔτ’ ἀδιάντοισι παρειαῖσ ἀμφί τε Περσέι βάλλε φίλαν χέρα εἶπέν τε· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2640)
  • Δευκαλίων δὲ ἐν τῇ λάρνακι διὰ τῆσ θαλάσσησ φερόμενοσ <ἐφ’> ἡμέρασ ἐννέα καὶ νύκτασ <τὰσ> ἴσασ τῷ Παρνασῷ προσίσχει, κἀκεῖ τῶν ὄμβρων παῦλαν λαβόντων ἐκβὰσ θύει Διὶ φυξίῳ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 7 2:6)
  • λάρνακι δ’ ἐν κοίλῃ μιν ὕπερθ’ ἁλὸσ ἧκε φέρεσθαι, αἴ κε φύγῃ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 11:22)
  • τῶν δὲ ἐπὶ τῇ λάρνακι ἐπιγράμματα ἔπεστι τοῖσ πλείοσι γράμμασι τοῖσ ἀρχαίοισ γεγραμμένα· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , mixed meters9)

Synonyms

  1. a coffer

  2. a cinerary urn or coffin

Related

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

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