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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

  • πάντα γὰρ λέγει δίκαια, πάσασ δ’ ἰδέασ ἐξήτασεν, πάντα δ’ ἐβάστασεν φρενὶ πυκνῶσ τε ποικίλουσ λόγουσ ἀνηῦρεν εὖ διεζητημένουσ· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, strophe 12)
  • "λέγε πυκνῶσ, ὦ ξενύλλιον, λέγε μηδὲν ἐλλείπων, ἄν σου δύνῃ τὰν ψυχὰν κενῶσαι κακῶν, ὧν ἐοίκασ πλήρησ εἶναι. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 131)
  • ὅταν δὲ οὕτω διὰ τοῦ ἴχνουσ πυκνῶσ διᾴττωσι, μὴ κατέχοντα κυνοδρομεῖν, ἵνα μὴ ὑπὸ φιλοτιμίασ ὑπερβάλλωσι τὰ ἴχνη. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 6 25:2)
  • ] "Ἐπί τε τοῖσ προειρημένοισ τοὺσ κόσμουσ δεῖ καὶ πᾶσαν σύγκρισιν πεπερασμένην τὸ ὁμοειδὲσ τοῖσ θεωρουμένοισ πυκνῶσ ἔχουσαν νομίζειν γεγονέναι ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀπείρου, πάντων τούτων ἐκ συστροφῶν ἰδίων ἀποκεκριμένων καὶ μειζόνων καὶ ἐλαττόνων· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 73:3)
  • τῆσ δ’ εἰρεσίασ οὐχ ὑπηρετούσησ, πολλαὶ τῶν Περσῶν τριήρεισ πλάγιαι γινόμεναι ταῖσ ἐμβολαῖσ πυκνῶσ κατετιτρώσκοντο. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 16 16:2)

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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