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ἀναβολεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀναβολεύς

Structure: ἀναβολευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)naba/llw

Sense

  1. a groom who helps one to mount

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

  • καὶ λήψῃ ἐκεῖθεν ὀλίγουσ ἐν ἀριθμῷ καὶ συμπεριλήψῃ αὐτοὺσ τῇ ἀναβολῇ σου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 5:3)
  • κἀπειδή ποτε ὁ καιρὸσ ἀφίκετο, πρὸσ τάχοσ ἐμαυτὸν ἀπορρύψασ ἄπειμι κοσμίωσ μάλα ἐσχηματισμένοσ, ἀναστρέψασ τὸ τριβώνιον ὡσ ἐπὶ τοῦ καθαρωτέρου γένοιτο ἡ ἀναβολή· (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 9:6)
  • ἢ τούτων ὀλίγον σοι μέλει, ἄχρι ἂν εὐσταλὴσ ἡ ἀναβολὴ καὶ ὁ πώγων βαθὺσ καὶ ἐν χρῷ ἡ κουρά; (Lucian, 36:5)
  • ἐκ δὲ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων ἐσκοποῦμεν κοινῇ, εἴ πωσ ἀναβολή τισ γένοιτο ἐν τῷ παρόντι, ὥστε παρασκευάσασθαι ἡμᾶσ καθ’ ἡσυχίαν πρὸσ τὸν ἀγῶνα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 27:2)
  • καὶ συνεβεβήκει, ὡσ ᾠόμεθα ἡμεῖσ, αὕτη καλλίστη ἀναβολή, δημοσίᾳ τούτου ἀποδημοῦντοσ στρατευομένου. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 28:2)

Synonyms

  1. a groom who helps one to mount

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

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