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φυσητήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φυσητήρ φυσητῆρος

Structure: φυσητηρ (Stem)

Etym.: fusa/w

Sense

  1. an instrument for blowing, blowpipe or tube

Declension

Third 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

  • ὡσ δ’ αὕτωσ ἔχει καὶ περὶ τῶν κητέων ἁπάντων, ὀρύγων τε καὶ φαλαινῶν καὶ φυσητήρων, ὧν ἀναφυσησάντων φαίνεταί τισ νεφώδουσ ὄψισ κίονοσ τοῖσ πόρρωθεν ἀφορῶσι· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 14:3)
  • τὸ δὲ μάλιστα ταράττον φυσητήρων μεγέθη ῥοῦν ἀπεργαζομένων μέγαν ἀθρόον καὶ ἀχλὺν ἐκ τῶν ἀναφυσημάτων, ὥστε τὰ πρὸ ποδῶν μέρη μὴ ὁρᾶσθαι· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 2 24:2)

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

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