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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

  • πολλοὶ δ’ ἔπιπτον κρᾶτασ αἱματούμενοι, ἡμῶν τ’ ἐσ οὖδασ εἶδεσ ἂν πρὸ τειχέων πυκνοὺσ κυβιστητῆρασ ἐκπεπνευκότασ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 8:5)
  • ὁρῶ δὲ Τυδέα καὶ παρασπιστὰσ πυκνοὺσ Αἰτωλίσιν λόγχαισιν εἰσ ἄκρον στόμα πύργων ἀκοντίζοντασ, ὥστ’ ἐπάλξεων λιπεῖν ἐρίπνασ φυγάδασ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 11:2)
  • ὁ δ’ ἔσ τε Πυθὼ κἀπὶ Δωδώνησ πυκνοὺσ θεοπρόπουσ ἰάλλεν, ὡσ μάθοι τί χρὴ δρῶντ’ ἢ λέγοντα δαίμοσιν πράσσειν φίλα. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 3:2)
  • ἐὰν γὰρ ὑποχωρῶν ἐμπέσῃ εἰσ πυκνούσ, κίνδυνοσ πληγῆναι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 9:3)
  • γενόμενοι δὲ ποταμοῦ Κρεμέρασ πλησίον, ὃσ οὐ μακρὰν ἀπέχει τῆσ Οὐιεντανῶν πόλεωσ, ὑπὲρ ὄχθου τινὸσ ἀποτόμου καὶ περιρρῶγοσ ἐπετείχιζον αὐτοῖσ φρούριον ἱκανὸν φυλάττεσθαι τοσαύτῃ στρατιᾷ τάφρουσ τ’ ὀρυξάμενοι περὶ αὐτὸ διπλᾶσ καὶ πύργουσ ἐγείραντεσ πυκνούσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 15 6:1)

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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