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βασανίστρια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βασανίστρια βασανίστριας

Structure: βασανιστρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. an examiner

Declension

First 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

  • ἔνθεν δὴ στοματουργὸσ ἐπῶν βασανίστρια λίσφη γλῶσσ’ ἀνελισσομένη φθονεροὺσ κινοῦσα χαλινοὺσ ῥήματα δαιομένη καταλεπτολογήσει πλευμόνων πολὺν πόνον. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Choral, strophe 41)

Synonyms

  1. an examiner

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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