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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

  • ἄγε δὴ πινάκων ξεστῶν δέλτοι, δέξασθε σμίλησ ὁλκοὺσ κήρυκασ ἐμῶν μόχθων· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode, lyric2)
  • Ἴλιον Ἴλιον, ὤμοι μοι, Φρύγιον ἄστυ καὶ καλλίβωλον Ἴ‐ δασ ὄροσ ἱερόν, ὥσ σ’ ὀλόμενον στένω ἁρμάτειον ἁρμάτειον μέλοσ βαρβάρῳ βοᾷ δι’ ὀρνιθόγονον ὄμμα κυκνοπτέρου καλλοσύνασ, Λήδασ σκύμνου, δυσελένασ δυσελένασ, ξεστῶν περγάμων Ἀπολλωνίων ἐρινύν· (Euripides, episode, lyric6)
  • οἱ δὲ διὰ ξεστῶν κεράων ἔλθωσι θύραζε, οἵ ῥ’ ἔτυμα κραίνουσι, βροτῶν ὅτε κέν τισ ἴδηται. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 60:6)
  • καὶ ἀπ’ ἀγορᾶσ ἐὰν μὴ ῥαντίσωνται οὐκ ἐσθίουσιν, καὶ ἄλλα πολλά ἐστιν ἃ παρέλαβον κρατεῖν, βαπτισμοὺσ ποτηρίων καὶ ξεστῶν καὶ χαλκίων. (, chapter 4 156:1)
  • "ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ τῆσ βασιλείασ ἔτει Κῦροσ ὁ βασιλεὺσ ἐκέλευσεν τὸν ναὸν οἰκοδομηθῆναι τὸν ἐν Ιἑροσολύμοισ καὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον, ὕψοσ μὲν πηχῶν ἑξήκοντα εὖροσ δὲ τῶν αὐτῶν, διὰ δόμων λιθίνων βία τε ξεστῶν τριῶν καὶ ξυλίνου δόμου ἑνὸσ ἐγχωρίου. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 11 124:2)

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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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