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βακέλας

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βακέλας

Structure: βακελ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. an eunuch in the service of Cybele

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βακέλας βακέλᾱ βακέλαι
Genitive βακέλου βακέλαιν βακελῶν
Dative βακέλῃ βακέλαιν βακέλαις
Accusative βακέλην βακέλᾱ βακέλᾱς
Vocative βακέλα βακέλᾱ βακέλαι

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

  • ἦν τισ ἂν ἢ βακέλασ χρυσοφόροσ, ῥήσσων καλὰ τύμπανα· (Plutarch, De exilio, section 2 6:1)
  • Σάρδιεσ ἀρχαῖαι, πατέρων νομόσ, εἰ μὲν ἐν ὑμῖν ἐτρεφόμαν, κερνᾶσ ἦν τισ ἂν ἢ βακέλασ χρυσοφόροσ, ῥήσσων καλὰ τύμπανα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 7091)

Synonyms

  1. an eunuch in the service of Cybele

Similar forms

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

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