Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νηκτός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νηκτός νηκτή νηκτόν

Structure: νηκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: nh/xw

Sense

  1. swimming

Examples

  • χερσαῖα γὰρ εἰσ ἔνυδρα μετεβάλλετο, καὶ νηκτὰ μετέβαινεν ἐπὶ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 19:19)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ πτηνὰ γεννᾷ καὶ νηκτὰ μυρία καὶ χερσαῖα, σαύρασ, καὶ ἀμφίβια, κροκοδείλουσ, καὶ δίποδα, τὸν ὄρνιν, καὶ ἄποδα, τὸν ὄφιν, καὶ πολύποδα, τὸν ἀττέλεβον· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 14:3)
  • πέμπτῃ ἡμέρᾳ ζῷά τε κατ’ αὐτὴν νηκτὰ καὶ μετάρσια τὰ μὲν κατὰ βάθουσ τὰ δὲ δι’ ἀέροσ ἀνῆκε συνδησάμενοσ αὐτὰ κοινωνίᾳ καὶ μίξει γονῆσ ἕνεκα καὶ τοῦ συναύξεσθαι καὶ πλεονάζειν αὐτῶν τὴν φύσιν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 39:1)

Synonyms

  1. swimming

Related

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

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