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νηκτός?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: nēktos

Principal Part: νηκτός νηκτή νηκτόν

Structure: νηκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: νήχω

Sense

  1. swimming

Declension

First/Second 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

  • χερσαῖα γὰρ εἰς ἔνυδρα μετεβάλλετο, καὶ νηκτὰ μετέβαινεν ἐπὶ γῆς. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 19:19)
  • τὰ θηρία τῶν πλείστων ἀπέχεται, ὀλίγοις δὲ πολεμεῖ διὰ τὴν τῆς τροφῆς ἀνάγκην ἀλλ οὔτε τι πτηνὸν οὔτε νηκτόν, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν, οὔτε χερσαῖον ἐκπέφευγε τὰς ἡμέρους δὴ λεγομένας· (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 8 8:1)
  • ἀνθρώπῳ νηκτόν, ὃ μὴ πέτραις προσέχεται καὶ προσπέφυκεν, οὐδ ἁλώσιμον ἄνευ πραγματείας, ὡς λύκοις μὲν ὄνοι καὶ μέροψι μέλισσαι χελιδόσι δὲ τέττιγες, ἐλάφοις δ ὄφεις ἀγόμενοι ῥᾳδίως ὑπ αὐτῶν ᾗ καὶ τοὔνομα πεποίηται παρώνυμον οὐ τῆς ἐλαφρότητος ἀλλὰ τῆς ἕλξεως τοῦ ὄφεως,, καὶ τὸ πρόβατον προσκαλεῖται τῷ ποδὶ τὸν λύκον: (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 24 1:1)
  • οὐκ οἶδ εἴτε σάκος λέξαιμί σε, τὴν ἐπὶ πολλοὺς ἀντιπάλους πιστὴν σύμμαχον ὡπλισάμην, εἴτε σε βαιὸν ἐμοὶ πόντου σκάφος, ἥ μ ἀπὸ νηὸς ὀλλυμένης κόμισας νηκτὸν ἐπ ἠιόνας. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 1091)
  • 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)

Synonyms

  1. swimming

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

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