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Πειραιεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πειραιεύς

Structure: Πειραιευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Peiraeeus

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ χρόνῳ ἐδήλωσε τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῖσ καὶ ἐποίησαν τὰ νομιζόμενα, τὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἐνιαυτὸν ἐν Πειραιεῖ διῃτῶντο· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 25 3:1)
  • καὶ τούτων μὲν οὐ θαυμάζω, ὑμῶν δὲ τῶν ἀκροωμένων, ὅτι πάντων ἐστὲ ἐπιλησμονέστατοι ἢ πάσχειν ἑτοιμότατοι κακῶσ ὑπὸ τοιούτων ἀνδρῶν, οἳ τῇ μὲν τύχῃ τῶν Πειραιεῖ πραγμάτων μετέσχον, τῇ δὲ γνώμῃ τῶν ἐξ ἄστεωσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 33 1:1)
  • Πειραιεῖ καθεδούμεθα τοὺσ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ἢ Ἰταλίασ καταπλέοντασ ἀνακρίνοντεσ, εἴ που τὸ μέγα Ἀδειμάντου πλοῖον τὴν Ἶσίν τισ εἶδεν. (Lucian, 26:1)
  • ἐχάλκευε γὰρ καὶ μέγα ἦν ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐν Πειραιεῖ, καὶ πάντων ἐστὶν ἀκοῦσαι διομνυμένων ἦ μὴν μετὰ Φιλῖνον μηκέτι ἔσεσθαι ἄλλον χαλκέα. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:8)
  • ἐν Πειραιεῖ δήπου ’στὶ Κανθάρου λιμήν. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, iambics17)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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