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χαλινός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλινός χαλινοῦ

Structure: χαλιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a bridle, bit, to champ, to give, the rein
  2. anything which curbs or restrains
  3. a strap or thong

Declension

Second 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

  • φόβοσ δ’ ἀρῄων ὅπλων δονεῖ, διὰ δέ τοι γενύων ἱππίων κινύρονται φόνον χαλινοί. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 16)
  • αἵδ’ ἀπὸ Λευκανῶν θυρεάσπιδεσ, οἱ δὲ χαλινοὶ στοιχηδόν, ξεσταὶ τ’ ἀμφίβολοι κάμακεσ δέδμηνται, ποθέουσαι ὁμῶσ ἵππουσ τε καὶ ἄνδρασ, Παλλάδι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1311)
  • χρὴ δέ, ἐπείπερ χαλινοὶ καὶ ἐφίππια ἐξ ἱμάντων ἠρτημένα ἐστί χρήσιμα, μήποτε τὸν ἵππαρχον τούτων ἔρημον εἶναι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 8 6:2)
  • καὶ χαλινοὶ δὲ οἱ λεῖοι ἐπιτηδειότεροι τῶν τραχέων. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 10:1)
  • ὁποῖοι δ’ ἂν ὦσι χαλινοί, πάντεσ ὑγροὶ ἔστωσαν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bridle

    • ()
  2. a strap or thong

Related

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

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