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ἐπισπαστήρ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπισπαστήρ ἐπισπαστῆρος

Structure: ἐπισπαστηρ (Stem)

Etym.: from e)pispa/w

Sense

  1. the latch or handle by which a door is pulled to
  2. rod or line

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπισπαστήρ ἐπισπαστῆρε ἐπισπαστῆρες
Genitive ἐπισπαστῆρος ἐπισπαστήροιν ἐπισπαστήρων
Dative ἐπισπαστῆρι ἐπισπαστήροιν ἐπισπαστῆρσιν*
Accusative ἐπισπαστῆρα ἐπισπαστῆρε ἐπισπαστῆρας
Vocative ἐπισπαστήρ ἐπισπαστῆρε ἐπισπαστῆρες

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

  • ἑπτακοσίουσ γὰρ δὴ τοῦ δήμου ζωγρήσαντεσ ἐξῆγον ὡσ ἀπολέοντεσ, εἷσ δέ τισ τούτων ἐκφυγὼν τὰ δεσμὰ καταφεύγει πρὸσ πρόθυρα Δήμητροσ θεσμοφόρου, ἐπιλαμβανόμενοσ δὲ τῶν ἐπισπαστήρων εἴχετο· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 91 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. the latch or handle by which a door is pulled to

  2. rod or line

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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