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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative γραφεύς γραφή γραφής
Genitive γραφέως γραφέοιν γραφέων
Dative γραφεί γραφέοιν γραφεῦσιν*
Accusative γραφέα γραφή γραφέᾱς
Vocative γραφεύ γραφή γραφής

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

  • καὶ τούτων ζητηθείσησ τῆσ γενικῆσ γραφῆσ ἐν τῷ καταλοχισμῷ καὶ μὴ εὑρεθείσησ, ἐχωρίσθησαν τοῦ ἱερατεύειν. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 5:39)
  • καὶ τοῦτο τὸ ἀντίγραφον τῆσ γραφῆσ. «̓Οκτωκαιδεκάτῃ Ἐλούλ, ἔτουσ δευτέρου καὶ ἑβδομηκοστοῦ καὶ ἑκατοστοῦ ‐ καὶ τοῦτο τρίτον ἔτοσ ἐπὶ Σίμωνοσ ἀρχιερέως (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 14:27)
  • ἵν’ οὖν ὡσ ἥκιστα περιπίπτωμεν αὐταῖσ, ὑποδεῖξαι βούλομαι τῷ λόγῳ καθάπερ ἐπί τινοσ γραφῆσ ὁποῖὸν τί ἐστιν ἡ διαβολὴ καὶ πόθεν ἄρχεται καὶ ὁποῖα ἐργάζεται. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 2:1)
  • οὕτωσ μὲν Ἀπελλῆσ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ κίνδυνον ἐπὶ τῆσ γραφῆσ ἐμιμήσατο. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 5:10)
  • πολὺσ γὰρ ὁ περὶ αὐτῶν λόγοσ, ὃν οὐ καλῶσ εἶχεν ἑτέρασ γραφῆσ ποιῆσαι πάρεργον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 33)

Synonyms

  1. a painter

Related

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

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