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βυρσοπώλης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βυρσοπώλης

Structure: βυρσοπωλ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pwle/w

Sense

  1. a leather-seller

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βυρσοπώλης βυρσοπώλᾱ βυρσοπῶλαι
Genitive βυρσοπώλου βυρσοπώλαιν βυρσοπωλῶν
Dative βυρσοπώλῃ βυρσοπώλαιν βυρσοπώλαις
Accusative βυρσοπώλην βυρσοπώλᾱ βυρσοπώλᾱς
Vocative βυρσοπῶλα βυρσοπώλᾱ βυρσοπῶλαι

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

  • τὸ δεῖνα γὰρ ἀπόλωλ’ Ἀθηναίοισιν ἁλετρίβανοσ, ὁ βυρσοπώλησ, ὃσ ἐκύκα τὴν Ἑλλάδα. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests 3:28)
  • ταῦτα δ’ ἦν ὁ δρῶν βυρσοπώλησ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, epirrheme21)
  • ἐπιγίγνεται γὰρ βυρσοπώλησ ὁ Παφλαγών, ἁρ́παξ κεκράκτησ Κυκλοβόρου φωνὴν ἔχων. (Aristotle, Prologue 4:9)
  • τὸν προβατοπώλην ἦν ἄρ’ ἀπολέσθαι χρεὼν ὑπὸ βυρσοπώλου; (Aristotle, Prologue 4:10)
  • ὁρᾷσ γὰρ αὐτῷ στῖφοσ οἱο͂́ν ἐστι βυρσοπωλῶν νεανιῶν· (Aristotle, Agon, antepirrheme7)

Synonyms

  1. a leather-seller

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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