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κλεψύδρα
κλεψύδρα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κλεψῠ́δρη (klepsúdrē) Ionic
Noun
κλεψῠ́δρᾱ • (klepsúdrā) f (genitive κλεψῠ́δρᾱς); first declension
- pipette
- water clock; clepsydra. The ancient form was similar to the pipette.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κλεψῠ́δρᾱ | τὼ κλεψῠ́δρᾱ | αἱ κλεψῠ́δραι | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κλεψῠ́δρᾱς | τοῖν κλεψῠ́δραιν | τῶν κλεψῠδρῶν | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κλεψῠ́δρᾳ | τοῖν κλεψῠ́δραιν | ταῖς κλεψῠ́δραις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κλεψῠ́δρᾱν | τὼ κλεψῠ́δρᾱ | τᾱ̀ς κλεψῠ́δρᾱς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κλεψῠ́δρᾱ | κλεψῠ́δρᾱ | κλεψῠ́δραι | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
References
- κλεψύδρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κλεψύδρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «κλεψύδρα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.