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ξέστης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξέστης ξέστου

Structure: ξεστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. pint

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

  • ἐσπούδασε δὲ μάλιστα περὶ τὴν ὁδοποιϊάν, τῆσ τε χρείασ ἅμα καὶ τοῦ πρὸσ χάριν καὶ κάλλοσ ἐπιμεληθείσ, εὐθεῖαι γὰρ ἤγοντο διὰ τῶν χωρίων ἀτρεμεῖσ, καὶ τὸ μὲν ἐστόρνυτο πέτρᾳ ξεστῇ, τὸ ἄμμου χώμασι νακτῆσ ἐπυκνοῦτο. (Plutarch, Caius Gracchus, chapter 7 1:1)
  • τῷ γοῦν Μέντῃ, φασίν, ἀφικομένῳ πρὸσ Τηλέμαχον τῶν τραπεζῶν παρακειμένων ξεστὴ παρετέθη τράπεζα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 203)
  • τὴν δ’ Ἀντιοχέων τῶν ἐν Συρίᾳ πλατεῖαν οὐ φευκτὴν οὖσαν ὑπὸ βορβόρου κατέστρωσέν τε σταδίων εἴκοσι τὸ μῆκοσ οὖσαν ξεστῇ μαρμάρῳ καὶ πρὸσ τὰσ τῶν ὑετῶν ἀποφυγὰσ ἐκόσμησεν ἰσομήκει στοᾷ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 606:3)

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

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