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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

  • τούτων ἁπάντων αὐτὸσ ἀρχέλασ ἔσει, καὶ τῆσ ἀγορᾶσ καὶ τῶν λιμένων καὶ τῆσ πυκνόσ· (Aristotle, Prologue 4:40)
  • ὡσ ἐγώ, ὁπότεροσ ἂν σφῷν νῦν με μᾶλλον εὖ ποιῇ, τούτῳ παραδώσω τῆσ πυκνὸσ τὰσ ἡνίασ. (Aristotle, Episode 2:42)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν νοῦσ σύστοιχοσ ἔστω καὶ πυκνόσ, ἡ λέξισ δὲ σαφὴσ καὶ πολιτική, οἱά ἐπισημότατα δηλοῦν τὸ ὑποκείμενον. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 432)
  • τροφῆσ κατακρατεῖν ἡ δ’ οὐ φέρει τὸ πολὺ καὶ κατακλύζον, ἢ πυκνὸσ ὢν ὁ πυρὸσ καὶ ξυλώδησ φύεται βέλτιον ἐν ὑγρῷ μαλαττόμενοσ καὶ χυλούμενοσ, τῇ δὲ κριθῇ διὰ μανότητα σύμφορον ἐν ἀρχῇ τὸ ξηρότερον, ἢ διὰ θερμότητα σύμμετροσ καὶ ἀβλαβὴσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 16 1:1)
  • ἐστιν ὡσ ξύλον οὔτ’ ἄγαν πυκνὸσ ὡσ χρυσὸσ ἢ λίθοσ, ἀλλ’ ἔχει πόρουσ καὶ οἴμουσ καὶ τραχύτητασ διὰ τὰσ ἀνωμαλίασ τῷ ἀέρι συμμέτρουσ, ὥστε μὴ ἀπολισθάνειν ἀλλ’ ἕδραισ τισὶν ἐνισχόμενον καὶ ἀντερείσεσι περιπλοκὴν σύμμετρον ἐχούσαισ, ὡσ ἂν ἐμπέσῃ πρὸσ τὴν λίθον φερόμενοσ, ἀποβιάζεσθαι καὶ προωθεῖν τὸν σίδηρον. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 7, section 7 7:1)

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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