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φαρμακοπώλης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φαρμακοπώλης φαρμακοπώλου

Structure: φαρμακοπωλ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a dealer in drugs

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

  • ἤδη παρὰ τοῖσι φαρμακοπώλαισ τὴν λίθον ταύτην ἑόρακασ τὴν καλήν, τὴν διαφανῆ, ἀφ’ ἧσ τὸ πῦρ ἅπτουσι; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:37)
  • παραπλησίωσ ἐφίενται μὲν ταύτησ πολλοὶ διὰ τὴν προγεγενημένην περὶ αὐτῆσ δόξαν, προσφέρονται δὲ πρὸσ τὴν ἐπιβολὴν οἱ μὲν πλεῖστοι τῶν γραφόντων ἁπλῶσ δίκαιον οὐδὲν πλὴν εὐχέρειαν καὶ τόλμαν καὶ ῥᾳδιουργίαν, παραπλήσιον τοῖσ φαρμακοπώλαισ δοξοκοποῦντεσ καὶ πρὸσ χάριν λέγοντεσ ἀεὶ τὰ πρὸσ τοὺσ καιροὺσ ἕνεκα τοῦ πορίζειν τὸν βίον διὰ τούτων· (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 25e 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a dealer in drugs

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

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