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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

  • λεύσσω δὲ φῶτε περιπολοῦνθ’ ἡμῶν στρατὸν πυκνῆσ δι’ ὄρφνησ· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic11)
  • κενοὶ γὰρ οὗτοι τῶν τ’ ἀκουόντων λόγοι καὶ τοῦ λέγοντοσ, ὅστισ ἐν μάχῃ βεβὼσ λόγχησ ἰούσησ πρόσθεν ὀμμάτων πυκνῆσ σαφῶσ ἀπήγγειλ’ ὅστισ ἐστὶν ἁγαθόσ. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode8)
  • ὧδε δὲ αὐτοῖσ ἔχουσιν ὁ Ῥασκούπολισ ἐφη περίοδον εἶναι παρ’ αὐτὸ τὸ τῶν Σαπαίων ὄροσ ἡμερῶν τριῶν, ἄβατον μὲν ἀνθρώποισ ἐσ τὸ νῦν ὑπό τε κρημνῶν καὶ ἀνυδρίασ καὶ ὕλησ πυκνῆσ· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 13 2:3)
  • κατεσκεύασαν ἀπὸ σχοίνου πυκνῆσ περιφερὲσ πλόκανον, τῷ μὲν τύπῳ τοῖσ κύρτοισ ἐμφερέσ, τῷ δὲ μεγέθει καὶ τῇ διαλήψει τῆσ χώρασ δυνάμενον δέξασθαι τὸν ὄγκον τοῦ θηρίου. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 37 1:2)
  • καὶ τῆσ ἀποδείξεωσ οὕτω συνεχοῦσ καὶ πυκνῆσ οὔσησ, ἐξέστω γὰρ εἰπεῖν, τὸ σχῆμα τῶν λόγων τῶν πρὸσ τὸν ἄνδρα οὐχ ἧττον ἀγαστόν ἐστιν, ὅτι οὐχ ἑτέρωσ μὲν τὴν κρηπῖδα ὑπέθηκα, ἑτέρωσ δὲ τὸ λοιπὸν ἐπήγαγον, ἀλλ’ ἀκολουθεῖ πανταχοῦ τῷ λόγῳ τὸ τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ προορώμενον, καὶ δείκνυμεν ὅτι ἀντιλέγοντεσ τὰ ἀναγκαῖα κοσμοῦμεν ἐκ περιουσίασ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:5)

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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