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ξυστήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξυστήρ ξυστῆρος

Structure: ξυστηρ (Stem)

Etym.: cu/w

Sense

  1. a graving tool

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ξυστήρ ξυστῆρε ξυστῆρες
Genitive ξυστῆρος ξυστήροιν ξυστήρων
Dative ξυστῆρι ξυστήροιν ξυστῆρσιν*
Accusative ξυστῆρα ξυστῆρε ξυστῆρας
Vocative ξυστήρ ξυστῆρε ξυστῆρες

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

  • Ἀλλὰ χρὴ αὖθισ τὴν Ῥωγμὴν ταύτην φανεῖσαν μέλαιναν ἐπιξέειν κατὰ βάθοσ‧ καὶ ἢν μὲν ἐπιξύων τὴν Ῥωγμὴν ἐξέλῃσ καὶ ἀφανέα ποιήσῃσ, φλάσισ μὲν γεγένηται τοῦ ὀστέου ἢ μᾶλλον ἢ ἧσσον, ἥτισ περιέῤῬηξε καὶ τὴν Ῥωγμὴν τὴν ἀφανισθεῖσαν ὑπὸ τοῦ ξυστῆροσ‧ ἧσσον δὲ φοβερὸν καὶ ἧσσον ἂν πρῆγμα ἀπ’ αὐτέησ γένοιτο ἀφανισθείσησ τῆσ Ῥωγμῆσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 14.9)

Synonyms

  1. a graving tool

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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