κυρτ-ός, ή, όν,
bulging, swelling, κῦμα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.426; κύματα κυρτὰ φαληριόωντα 13.799, cf. Sosicrates Comicus 2; θάλασσα κυρτὸν ἐπαφρίζῃ 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus “fragment” 1.5 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὼ δέ οἱ ὤμω κυρτώ humped, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.218, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 11.120; τὸ κ. τῶν ὤμων 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 6.201b ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence, hunchbacked, [[ PFay. 121.15 (1st-2nd c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; βραχίων κ. πέφυκεν ἐς τὸ ἔξω μέρος [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 8; κ. τροχός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1066; κυρτὴ κάμηλος 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 40.2; καρῖδες 4th c.BC: Ophelio Comicus 1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative κυρτότερος [[ 6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus “in Aristotelis Physica commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 696.26 ] Refs 6th c.AD+]: superlative κυρτότατοι φύλλον [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.10.5. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 convex, opposed to κοῖλος, οὔσης [τῆς γῆς] κυρτῆς καὶ σφαιροειδοῦς [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 365a31; περὶ τὰς ἐκλείψεις [ἡ σελήνη] ἀεὶ κυρτὴν ἔχει τὴν ὁρίζουσαν γραμμήν [prev. author] “Cael.” 297b28 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κ. ἐπιφάνεια convex surface of a shield, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.23.2 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; of blood-vessels, bulging, [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.44. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]