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ξυλουργία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξυλουργία

Structure: ξυλουργι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from culourge/w

Sense

  1. a working of wood, carpentry

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

  • οἳ πρῶτα μὲν βλέποντεσ ἔβλεπον μάτην, κλύοντεσ οὐκ ἤκουον, ἀλλ’ ὀνειράτων ἀλίγκιοι μορφαῖσι τὸν μακρὸν βίον ἔφυρον εἰκῇ πάντα, κοὔτε πλινθυφεῖσ δόμουσ προσείλουσ, ᾖσαν, οὐ ξυλουργίαν· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a working of wood

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

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