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αἱματοπώτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἱματοπώτης

Structure: αἱματοπωτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pi/nw

Sense

  1. a blood-drinker

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative αἱματοπώτης αἱματοπώτᾱ αἱματοπῶται
Genitive αἱματοπώτου αἱματοπώταιν αἱματοπωτῶν
Dative αἱματοπώτῃ αἱματοπώταιν αἱματοπώταις
Accusative αἱματοπώτην αἱματοπώτᾱ αἱματοπώτᾱς
Vocative αἱματοπῶτα αἱματοπώτᾱ αἱματοπῶται

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

  • ἀλλ’ ὁπόταν μάρψῃ βυρσαίετοσ ἀγκυλοχήλησ γαμφηλῇσι δράκοντα κοάλεμον αἱματοπώτην, δὴ τότε Παφλαγόνων μὲν ἀπόλλυται ἡ σκοροδάλμη, κοιλιοπώλῃσιν δὲ θεὸσ μέγα κῦδοσ ὀπάζει, αἴ κεν μὴ πωλεῖν ἀλλᾶντασ μᾶλλον ἕλωνται. (Aristotle, Prologue 5:18)
  • εἶθ’ αἱματοπώτησ ἔσθ’ ὅ τ’ ἀλλᾶσ χὠ δράκων· (Aristotle, Prologue 5:27)
  • Ἀριστοφάνησ ἐν Ἱππεῦσιν γαμφηλαῖσι δράκοντα κοάλεμον αἱματοπώτην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 2 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a blood-drinker

Similar forms

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

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