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The Ancient Greek word for to bend is
κάμπτω





to bend



Translations for to bend and their definitions

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)


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


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