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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

  • ἢ παρακαλέσαιμεν δηλαδὴ τοὺσ γραφέασ, καὶ μάλιστα ὁπόσοι αὐτῶν ἄριστοι ἐγένοντο κεράσασθαι τὰ χρώματα καὶ εὔκαιρον ποιεῖσθαι τὴν ἐπιβολὴν αὐτῶν; (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 7:6)
  • καίτοι παλαιὸσ οὗτοσ ὁ λόγοσ, ἀνευθύνουσ εἶναι ποιητὰσ καὶ γραφέασ, τοὺσ δὲ ἐπαινοῦντασ καὶ μᾶλλον, οἶμαι, εἰ καὶ χαμαὶ καὶ βάδην, ὥσπερ ἡμεῖσ, ἀλλὰ μὴ ἐπὶ μέτρων φέροιντο. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 18:5)

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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