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βυρσεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βυρσεύς

Structure: βυρσευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: bu/rsa

Sense

  1. a tanner

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βυρσεύς βυρσή βυρσής
Genitive βυρσέως βυρσέοιν βυρσέων
Dative βυρσεί βυρσέοιν βυρσεῦσιν*
Accusative βυρσέα βυρσή βυρσέᾱς
Vocative βυρσεύ βυρσή βυρσής

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

  • σάκκον ἔρραψαν ἐπὶ βύρσησ μου, τὸ δὲ σθένοσ μου ἐν γῇ ἐσβέσθη. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 16:15)
  • οἶνοσ δὲ ἦν οὐ γέρων, ἀλλὰ τῶν ἀπὸ βύρσησ, ἤδη μὲν ἀγλευκήσ, ἄπεπτοσ δὲ ἔτι. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 6:7)
  • τάσδε δ’ ἃσ ἄγων πάρει κακῶν συνεργοὺσ ἢ διεμπολήσομεν ἢ χεῖρα δούπου τοῦδε καὶ βύρσησ κτύπου παύσασ, ἐφ’ ἱστοῖσ δμωίδασ κεκτήσομαι. (Euripides, episode 3:46)
  • οὐκ ἐσ κόρακασ ἀποφθερεῖ βύρσησ κάκιστον ὄζων; (Aristotle, Agon, antepirrheme 1:7)
  • ὄζει κάκιστον τοὐνύπνιον βύρσησ σαπρᾶσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 1:31)

Synonyms

  1. a tanner

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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