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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

  • καὶ τοῦ πρώτου πυκνοῦ συγκεῖσθαι, τὴν δὲ σελήνην ἐκ τοῦ δευτέρου, πυκνοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἰδίου ἀέροσ, τὴν δὲ γῆν ἐξ ὕδατοσ καὶ ἀέροσ καὶ τοῦ τρίτου τῶν πυκνῶν ὅλωσ δὲ μήτε τὸ πυκνὸν αὐτὸ καθ’ αὑτὸ μήτε τὸ μανὸν εἶναι ψυχῆσ δεκτικόν. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 29 6:1)
  • βούλεται γὰρ εἰσ ἀτμοὺσ ἀναλυόμενον τὸ πινόμενον ὑγρὸν εἰσ τὴν κύστιν διαδίδοσθαι κἄπειτ’ ἐξ ἐκείνων αὖθισ ἀλλήλοισ συνιόντων οὕτωσ ἀπολαμβάνειν αὐτὸ τὴν ἀρχαίαν ἰδέαν καὶ γίγνεσθαι πάλιν ὑγρὸν ἐξ ἀτμῶν ἀτεχνῶσ ὡσ περὶ σπογγιᾶσ τινοσ ἢ ἐρίου τῆσ κύστεωσ διανοούμενοσ, ἀλλ’ οὐ σώματοσ ἀκριβῶσ πυκνοῦ καὶ στεγανοῦ δύο χιτῶνασ ἰσχυροτάτουσ κεκτημένου, δι’ ὧν εἴπερ διέρχεσθαι φήσομεν τοὺσ ἀτμούσ, τί δήποτ’ οὐχὶ διὰ τοῦ περιτοναίου καὶ τῶν φρενῶν διελθόντεσ ἐνέπλησαν ὕδατοσ τό τ’ ἐπιγάστριον ἅπαν καὶ τὸν θώρακα; (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 136)
  • ἣ ’ξωθεν εἴσω τῷ φέροντι μέμψεται, πυκνοῦ κροτησμοῦ τυγχάνουσ’ ὑπὸ πτόλιν. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 2 1:15)
  • Παρμενίδησ στεφάνασ εἶναι περιπεπλεγμένασ ἐπαλλήλουσ, τὴν μὲν ἐκ τοῦ ἀραιοῦ τὴν δ’ ἐκ τοῦ πυκνοῦ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 2, 1:1)

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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