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ἀλετρίβανος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλετρίβανος ἀλετρίβανη ἀλετρίβανον

Structure: ἀλετριβαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)le/w, tri/bw

Sense

  1. that which grinds or pounds, a pestle

Declension

First/Second 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

  • τὸ δεῖνα γὰρ ἀπόλωλ’ Ἀθηναίοισιν ἁλετρίβανοσ, ὁ βυρσοπώλησ, ὃσ ἐκύκα τὴν Ἑλλάδα. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests 3:28)
  • ἀπόλωλε γὰρ καὶ τοῖσ Λακεδαιμονίοισιν ἁλετρίβανοσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests 3:39)

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

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