κυρτόν (kyrton)

κυρτόν is an Ancient Greek form of κυρτός, meaning “bulging, swelling; humped”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.581: κυρτόν, ἀποτμῆγι σκοπιῇ ἴσον· οἱ δʼ ἐσιδόντες

Plutarch, Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus 11: … ς ἢ διερρωγὸς ὑπόδημα καλλωπίζεται πρὸς τοὺς ἐκτὸς ἀτυφίᾳ κενῇ καὶ νὴ Δία σκώπτων αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν ὡς μικρὸν ἢ ὡς κυρτὸν οἴεται νεανιεύεσθαι, τὰ δʼ ἐντὸς αἴσχη τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸν βίον ἐλλείμματα καὶ μικρολογίας καὶ φιληδονί …

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 46.1: Τιμόθεος εὐτυχὴς ἐνομίζετο στρατηγὸς εἶναι· καὶ φθονοῦντες αὐτῷ τινες ἐζωγράφουν τὰς πόλεις εἰς κύρτον αὐτομάτως ἐκείνου καθεύδοντος ἐνδυομένας· ἔλεγεν οὖν ὁ Τιμόθεος εἰ τηλικαύτας πόλεις λαμβάνω καθεύδων, τί με οἴεσθε ποιήσειν ἐγρηγορότα;

All forms of κυρτός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.