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ἀλέτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλέτης

Structure: ἀλετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: a)le/w

Sense

  1. a grinder

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀλέτης ἀλέτᾱ ἀλέται
Genitive ἀλέτου ἀλέταιν ἀλετῶν
Dative ἀλέτῃ ἀλέταιν ἀλέταις
Accusative ἀλέτην ἀλέτᾱ ἀλέτᾱς
Vocative ἀλέτα ἀλέτᾱ ἀλέται

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

  • μάθε οὖν ὅτι ἀρσενικῶσ εἴρηκε τὸν τίγριν Ἄλεξισ ἐν Πυραύνῳ οὕτωσ ἄνοιγ’, ἄνοιγε τὴν θύραν ἐλάνθανον πάλαι περιπατῶν ἀνδριάσ, 6 ἀλέτων ὄνοσ, ποτάμιοσ ἵπποσ, τοῖχοσ, ὁ Σελεύκου τίγρισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 57 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a grinder

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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