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ῥάκος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥάκος ῥάκεος

Structure: ῥακο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a ragged garment, a rag, rags, tatters
  2. a strip of cloth, a strip
  3. rents in the face, wrinkles
  4. a rag, remnant

Declension

Third declension

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

  • εἰή δ’, ὦ θεοί, καὶ τὰ παρ’ ὑμῶν ἐμπνεῦσαι δεξιά, ὡσ νῦν γε μάλιστα πλησιστίου τε καὶ ἐσθλοῦ ἑταίρου ἀνέμου δεόμεθα, ἵνα, εἰ ἄξιοι φαινοίμεθα, καὶ ἡμῖν τὸ Ὁμηρικὸν ἐκεῖνο ἐπιφθέγξηταί τίσ, οἱήν ἐκ ῥακέων ὁ γέρων ἐπιγουνίδα φαίνει. (Lucian, Hercules, 8:5)
  • εἴ τε ῥᾴθυμόσ τισ ἐμπέπαικεν αὖθισ καὶ φιλοπότησ καὶ πλούσιοσ, αὐτὰρ ὁ γυμνώθη ῥακέων πολύμητισ Ὀδυσσεύσ , ἔρριπται μὲν ὁ τρίβων, κατακείρεται δ’ ὁ πώγων ὥσπερ ἄκαρπον θέροσ, ψυκτῆρεσ δὲ καὶ φιάλαι καὶ γέλωτεσ ἐν περιπάτοισ καὶ σκώμματα πρὸσ τοὺσ φιλοσοφοῦντασ, ὥσπερ ἐν Συρακούσαισ φασίν, ὁπηνίκα Πλάτων ἀφίκετο, καὶ Διονύσιον ζῆλοσ ἔσχε περιμανὴσ φιλοσοφίασ, τὰ βασίλεια κονιορτοῦ γέμειν ὑπὸ πλήθουσ τῶν γεωμετρούντων· (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 7 7:1)
  • "ἦ τάχα Ἶροσ Αἴ̈ροσ ἐπίσπαστον κακὸν ἕξει, οἱήν ἐκ ῥακέων ὁ γέρων ἐπιγουνίδα φαίνει. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 18 14:1)
  • αὐτὰρ ὁ γυμνώθη ῥακέων πολύμητισ Ὀδυσσεύσ, ἆλτο δ’ ἐπὶ μέγαν οὐδόν, ἔχων βιὸν ἠδὲ φαρέτρην ἰῶν ἐμπλείην, ταχέασ δ’ ἐκχεύατ’ ὀϊστοὺσ αὐτοῦ πρόσθε ποδῶν, μετὰ δὲ μνηστῆρσιν ἐείπεν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 1:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ πολλάκισ εἰπεῖν ἄν τινα ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ τοῦτο "οἱήν ἐκ ῥακέων ὁ Βίων. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 4:6)

Synonyms

  1. a ragged garment

  2. a strip of cloth

  3. rents in the face

  4. a rag

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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