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πυκνός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυκνός πυκνή πυκνόν

Structure: πυκν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pu/c

Sense

  1. close, compact
  2. close, firm, solid, a well-stuffed
  3. close-packed, crowded, thick, close, dense, a shower of
  4. frequent, many
  5. well put together, compact, fast, strong
  6. close, concealed
  7. strong, great, sore, excessive
  8. sagacious, shrewd, wise, the wise
  9. close or fast
  10. very much, constantly, sorely, greatly
  11. sagaciously, shrewdly, craftily
  12. much, often;
  13. strongly
  14. thick-falling
  15. carefully, diligently

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative πυκνός πυκνή πυκνόν
Genitive πυκνοῦ πυκνῆς πυκνοῦ
Dative πυκνῷ πυκνῇ πυκνῷ
Accusative πυκνόν πυκνήν πυκνόν
Vocative πυκνέ πυκνή πυκνόν
DualN/A/V πυκνώ πυκνᾱ́ πυκνώ
G/D πυκνοῖν πυκναῖν πυκνοῖν
PluralNominative πυκνοί πυκναί πυκνά
Genitive πυκνῶν πυκνῶν πυκνῶν
Dative πυκνοῖς πυκναῖς πυκνοῖς
Accusative πυκνούς πυκνᾱ́ς πυκνά
Vocative πυκνοί πυκναί πυκνά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective πυκνός πυκνοῦ πυκνότερος πυκνοτεροῦ πυκνότατος πυκνοτατοῦ
Adverb πυκνώς πυκνότερον πυκνότατα

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

  • Ἑκάβη, πυκνὰσ γὰρ οἶσθά μ’ ἐσ Τροίαν ὁδοὺσ ἐλθόντα κήρυκ’ ἐξ Ἀχαιικοῦ στρατοῦ, ἐγνωσμένοσ δὲ καὶ πάροιθέ σοι, γύναι, Ταλθύβιοσ ἥκω καινὸν ἀγγελῶν λόγον. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests5)
  • ἀλλ’ ὡσ τάχιστα τρῖβε πολλὰσ καὶ πυκνάσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue 1:9)
  • , αἷσ προστρέπεσθε καὶ καθυμνεῖτε τὸν ἐφ’ ἡδονὰσ παρακαλοῦντα συνεχεῖσ καὶ πυκνάσ; (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 17 5:1)
  • ποιοῦνται δὲ καὶ δημοσίᾳ πολλὰσ καὶ πυκνὰσ ἑστιάσεισ καὶ τοὺσ λαμπρῶσ φιλοτιμηθέντασ χρυσοῖσ στεφάνοισ τιμῶσι καὶ τούτουσ ἀνακηρύττουσιν ἐν ταῖσ δημοσίαισ θυσίαισ καὶ τοῖσ ἀγῶσιν, προσκηρύττοντεσ οὐκ εὔνοιαν,1 ἀλλὰ τὴν εἰσ τὰ δεῖπνα χορηγίαν ἐν οἷσ στεφανοῦσθαι καὶ τῶν μαγείρων τοὺσ ἄριστα τὰ παρατεθέντα ‐ διασκευάσαντασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 17 2:2)
  • καὶ μὴν τάσ γε συνεχεῖσ καὶ πυκνὰσ καὶ κατὰ μικρὸν ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ συλλεγομένασ ὀργὰσ μάλιστα φιλαυτία καὶ δυσκολία μετὰ τρυφῆσ, καὶ μαλακίασ οἱο͂ν σμῆνοσ ἢ σφηκιὰν ἡμῖν ἐντίκτουσι. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 131)

Synonyms

  1. close

  2. close

  3. close-packed

  4. frequent

  5. close

  6. sagacious

  7. close or fast

  8. much

  9. strongly

  10. thick-falling

Related

Similar forms

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

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