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γραφεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: γραφεύς

Structure: γραφευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: gra/fw

Sense

  1. a painter

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

  • ἐν δὲ τῇ αὐτῇ ἐπιστολῇ ὁ Ἐπίκουροσ καὶ Πρωταγόραν φησὶ τὸν σοφιστὴν ἐκ φορμοφόρου καὶ ξυλοφόρου πρῶτον μὲν γενέσθαι γραφέα Δημοκρίτου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 50 2:2)
  • καὶ σύγγραμμα κελευσθεὶσ ἄθλιον διελθεῖν αἰτιᾶσθαι τὸ χαρτίον ὡσ δασὺ καὶ τὸν γραφέα μιαρὸν καὶ ὀλίγωρον ἀποκαλεῖν. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 17 17:1)
  • ὃσ εἰσ τοσοῦτον ἐλήλυθε τόλμησ, ὥστε πείσασ Ἀγάθαρχον τὸν γραφέα συνεισελθεῖν οἴκαδε τὴν οἰκίαν ἐπηνάγκασε γράφειν, δεομένου δὲ καὶ προφάσεισ ἀληθεῖσ λέγοντοσ, ὡσ οὐκ ἂν δύναιτο ταῦτα πράττειν ἤδη διὰ τὸ συγγραφὰσ ἔχειν παρ’ ἑτέρων, προεῖπεν αὐτῷ δήσειν, εἰ μὴ πάνυ ταχέωσ γράφοι. (Andocides, Speeches, 27:1)
  • ἀλλὰ δεῖ τῇ μακρᾷ ἀποκόπτεσθαι, καὶ δήλην εἶναι τὴν τελευτὴν μὴ διὰ τὸν γραφέα, μηδὲ διὰ τὴν παραγραφήν, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν ῥυθμόν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 8 7:1)
  • εἱρ͂ξεν Ἀγάθαρχον τὸν γραφέα· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 194:5)

Synonyms

  1. a painter

Related

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

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