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γαλακτοπότης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: γαλακτοπότης

Structure: γαλακτοποτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pi/nw

Sense

  1. a milk-drinker

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

  • γαλακτοπόται δ’ εἰσί. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 216 5:1)
  • οὕτω μὲν μέχρι τῆσ Τριτωνίδοσ λίμνησ ἀπ’ Αἰγύπτου νομάδεσ εἰσὶ κρεοφάγοι τε καὶ γαλακτοπόται Λίβυεσ, καὶ θηλέων τε βοῶν οὔτι γευόμενοι, διότι περ οὐδὲ Αἰγύπτιοι, καὶ ὗσ οὐ τρέφοντεσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 186 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a milk-drinker

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

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