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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

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

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

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