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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

  • οὗ ναῦσ χαλινοῖσ λινοδέτοισ ὁρμεῖ σέθεν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 5:31)
  • καὶ ἄλογον καὶ ἀκυβέρνητον αἰωρεῖται τῷ αὐτομάτῳ τὸ πᾶν, οὔθ’ εἷσ ἐστιν ὁ κρατῶν καὶ κατευθύνων ὥσπερ οἰάξιν ἤ τισι πειθηνίοισ χαλινοῖσ λόγοσ, ἀλλὰ πολλὰ καὶ μεμιγμένα κακοῖσ καὶ ἀγαθοῖσ· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 45 6:1)
  • εἰ τοὺσ τρέφοντασ καὶ θεραπεύοντασ ἀσπάζεσθαι καὶ προσίεσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ κεντεῖν καὶ χαλεπαίνειν ἐβούλοντο νυνὶ δὲ ταύτασ μὲν καπνῷ κολάζουσιν, ἵππουσ δ’ ὑβριστὰσ καὶ κύνασ ἀποστάτασ κλοιοῖσ καὶ χαλινοῖσ ἄγουσιν ἠναγκασμένουσ· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 28 5:1)
  • τίνα φῶ λεύσσειν τόνδε χαλινοῖσ ἐν πετρίνοισιν χειμαζόμενον; (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests3)
  • οὔτε γὰρ ἡνίοχόσ σε παρήπαφεν, οὔτε χαλινοῖσ δύσστομοσ ἱππείη σοῖσ ἀπίθησε γένυσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 3612)

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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