The Ancient Greek word for to bend is
κάμπτω
Translations for to bend and their definitions
| κάμπτω | |
| 1. v. I bend, curve | |
| ὄφρα ἴτυν κάμψῃ περικαλλέϊ δίφρῳ - in order that he might bend himself a felloe for a beauteous chariot | |
| 2. v. (figuratively) | |
| θεός, ὃ ... - the gods, who ... | |
| τρεπόμενοι πολλὰ κάμπτονται καὶ συγκλῶνται - so that they become greatly bent and stunted | |
| 3. v. (transitive, intransitive) I turn | |
| ἔπειτα λύων ἡνίαν ἀριστερὰν κάμπτοντος ἵππου - But then he slackened his left rein while the horse was turning | |
| 4. v. (figuratively) | |
| ἐνταῦθα κάμψειν τὸν ταλαίπωρον βίον - there I should close my weary life | |
| ἔχουσαι διὰ λόγου κάμψαι κακά - though you might by parley end your ills | |
| 5. v. (nautical) I double (sail around) | |
| τρίτῳ ἔτεϊ κάμψαντες Ἡρακλέας στήλας ἀπίκοντο ἐς Αἴγυπτον - it was in the third year that they doubled the pillars of Heracles and came to Egypt |
| καμπή | |
| 1. n. such as of a (l, river) | |
| 2. n. en, bending | |
| 3. n. a (l, curved) part, curve | |
| 4. n. the in a (l, racecourse) | |
| 5. n. (metaphorically) the of a (l, speech) | |
| 6. n. (music) a en, change | |
| 7. n. (rhetoric) rounding off (of a period) | |
| 8. n. or flexure (of a limb or of the skull) |
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