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ἀροτήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀροτήρ ἀροτῆρος

Structure: ἀροτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: a)ro/w

Sense

  1. a plougher, husbandman
  2. (adjectival use) having to do with ploughing
  3. (figuratively) a begetter, father

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

  • εἰνοδίην, πρῶτοι δὲ βοῶν ἐπάσαντ’ ἀροτήρων. (Plutarch, De esu carnium II, section 4 1:1)
  • "τὸ δὲ χόρτου ἕνεκα τῶν τετραπόδων ζῴων, οἱο͂ν ὄροβοσ μὲν ἀροτήρων βοῶν, ἀφάκη δὲ προβάτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 71 1:5)
  • θύσαντεσ ὁρκωμοτεῖν τοῖσ Ἠπειρώταισ καὶ ὁρκίζειν, αὐτοὶ μὲν ἄρξειν κατὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ, ἐκείνουσ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν διαφυλάξειν κατὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ, ταῦτ’ οὖν ἐδρᾶτο ἀμφοτέρων τῶν βασιλέων παρόντων, καὶ συνῆσαν ἀλλήλοισ μετὰ τῶν φίλων, δῶρα πολλὰ τὰ μὲν διδόντεσ, τὰ δὲ λαμβάνοντεσ, ἐνταῦθα δὴ Γέλων, ἀνήρ πιστὸσ Νεοπτολέμῳ, δεξιωσάμενοσ φιλοφρόνωσ τὸν Πύρρον ἐδωρήσατο βοῶν ἀροτήρων δυσὶ ζεύγεσι. (Plutarch, chapter 5 2:3)
  • ἅμα δὲ ταῦτ’ ἔλεγε, καὶ στρατιὰν ἀθρόωσ κατέλεγεν ἐλευθέρων τε καὶ δούλων, ὅπλα τε πολλὰ καὶ βέλη καὶ μηχανὰσ ἐπήγνυ, φειδόμενοσ οὔτε τινὸσ ὕλασ οὔτε βοῶν ἀροτήρων ἐσ τὰ νεῦρα, ἐσφοράσ τε πᾶσιν ἐσ τὰ βραχύτατα τῆσ περιουσίασ ἐπέγραφεν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 16 2:9)
  • ἔστι δὲ ἡ κρήνη αὕτη ἐν οὔροισι χώρησ τῆσ τε ἀροτήρων Σκυθέων καὶ Ἀλαζόνων· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 52 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a plougher

  2. having to do with ploughing

  3. a begetter

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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