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λυκάβας?

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration: lykabas

Principal Part: λυκάβας λυκάβαντος

Structure: λυκαβαντ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from Λύκη, βαίνω, the path of light, the sun's course.

Sense

  1. a year
  2. that make up the year

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

  • πρῶτον Πηλείδης ἐγένου, μετὰ ταῦτα Μένανδρος, εἶθ ὃς νῦν φαίνῃ, μετὰ δ ἔσσεαι ἡλιὰς ἀκτίς, ζήσεις δ ὀγδώκοντ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἑκατὸν λυκάβαντας. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 34:2)
  • τοῦ δ οὔτιν ὑπέρτερον ἄλλον ὀίω, νόσφιν γ Ἡρακλῆος, ἐπελθέμεν, εἴ κ ἔτι μοῦνον αὖθι μένων λυκάβαντα μετετράφη Αἰτωλοῖσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 4:23)
  • Ἔνθ ἄμυδις πᾶς δῆμος ὑπερβασίῃσι γυναικῶν νηλειῶς δέδμητο παροιχομένῳ λυκάβαντι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 11:16)
  • εἴκοσιν ἐς λυκάβαντας ἰδὲ τρισὶν ἤρκεσε γαίῃ, ζήσας δ αὖ λογικῶς ἐσθλὸν ἔδεκτο τέλος. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 30 1:1)
  • ἑπτὰ τριηκόντεσσιν ἐπέρχονται λυκάβαντες, ἤδη μοι βιότου σχιζόμεναι σελίδες: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 411)
  • σῷ γὰρ ἀρουροπόνῳ Φιλαλήθεϊ τέτρατος ἤδη ὀκτάδος ἑνδεκάτης ἐστὶ φίλος λυκάβας, οὐδέποτ ἀμήσαντι Κορινθικόν, οὔ ποτε πικρᾶς τῆς ἀφιλοσταχύου γευσαμένῳ πενίης. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 40 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a year

  2. that make up the year

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

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