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ἀμφορεύς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration: amphoreus

Principal Part: ἀμφορεύς

Structure: ἀμφορευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: shortened for ἀμφιφορεύς,

Sense

  1. an amphora, jar, urn
  2. amphorae

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

  • ἢν δὲ τὴν κάμινον εὑρ´ῃς πλέην ἀμφορέων, μὴ ἐξοπτήσῃς τοὺς ἀμφορέας ἀλλ ἀπόπεμπε κατ οὖρον: (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 163 3:2)
  • τοῖς οὖν αἰχμαλώτοις διὰ τοῦ στρατοπέδου συνήντων ξιφήρεις, καταστέψασαι δ αὐτοὺς ἦγον ἐπὶ κρατῆρα χαλκοῦν ὅσον ἀμφορέων εἴκοσιν: (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 2 6:2)

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

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