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ἀμφορεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφορεύς

Structure: ἀμφορευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: shortened for a)mfiforeu/s,

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

  • ἀλλὰ τριταῖον ἔχειν σκόμβρον, πρὶν ἐσ ἁλμυρὸν ὕδωρ ἐλθεῖν, ἀμφορέωσ ἐντὸσ νέον, ἡμιτάριχον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 85 2:3)
  • ἄλλωσ δ’ ἂν ἐδόκει μῦθοσ, ὥσπερ ἡμῖν ἐδόκει τὸ τῶν ἐν Λιβύῃ κοράκων, οἳ ποτοῦ δεόμενοι λίθουσ ἐμβάλλουσιν ἀναπληροῦντεσ καὶ ἀνάγοντεσ τὸ ὕδωρ, μέχρι ἂν ἐν ἐφικτῷ γένηται εἶτα μέντοι κύνα θεασάμενοσ ἐν πλοίῳ, τῶν ναυτῶν μὴ παρόντων, εἰσ ἔλαιον ἀμφορέωσ ἀποδεοῦσ ἐμβάλλοντα τῶν χαλίκων, ἐθαύμασα πῶσ νοεῖ καὶ συνίησι τὴν γιγνομένην ἔκθλιψιν ὑπὸ τῶν βαρυτέρων τοῖσ κουφοτέροισ ὑφισταμένων. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 10 15:1)
  • τετράκισ ἀμφορέωσ περὶ χείλεσι χείλεα θεῖσα Σειληνὶσ πάσασ ἐξερόφησε τρύγασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 4091)

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

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