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

  • δεσπότασ γὰρ ἁπάντων ὑμᾶσ εἶναι πεποίηκα τῶν τε χερσαίων καὶ νηκτῶν καὶ ὅσα τὴν μετάρσιον αἰώραν ἔχει καὶ φοράν, χωρὶσ αἵματοσ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 125:2)
  • καθ’ ἕκαστον γὰρ εἶδοσ δένδρου παραβολὴν εἶπεν ἀπὸ ὑσσώπου ἑώσ κέδρου, τὸν αὐτὸν δὲ τρόπον καὶ περὶ κτηνῶν καὶ τῶν ἐπιγείων ἁπάντων ζῴων καὶ τῶν νηκτῶν καὶ τῶν ἀερίων· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 56:2)

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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