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γραμματική

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: γραμματική

Structure: γραμματικ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. animate senses:, a female teacher of the rudiments
  2. a woman who occupies herself with literary texts, a female grammarian or critic

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

  • γραμματικῶν δὲ Ἐρατοσθένησ μὲν ὁ Ἀγλαοῦ Κυρηναῖοσ, ὃν οὐ μόνον γραμματικόν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ποιητὴν ἄν τισ ὀνομάσειεν καὶ φιλόσοφον καὶ γεωμέτρην, δύο καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα οὗτοσ ἔζησεν ἔτη. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 27:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ κατὰ θεὸν ἐν τοῖσ προκειμένοισ, φίλτατε Οὐλπιανέ, ἢ ὑμεῖσ, γραμματικῶν παῖδεσ, εἴπατέ μοι τίνι ἐννοίᾳ ὁ Ἔφιπποσ ἐν τοῖσ προειρημένοισ ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 591)
  • παρῆν δὲ καὶ Πλούταρχοσ καὶ Λεωνίδησ ὁ Ἠλεῖοσ καὶ Αἰμιλιανὸσ ὁ Μαυρούσιοσ καὶ Ζωίλοσ, γραμματικῶν οἱ χαριέστατοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 24)
  • "εἰ μὴ ἰατροὶ ἦσαν, οὐδὲν ἂν ἦν τῶν γραμματικῶν μωρότερον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 2 2:2)
  • ὅτι Ἡσίοδοσ ἐν Κήυκοσ γάμῳ κἂν γὰρ γραμματικῶν παῖδεσ ἀποξενῶσι τοῦ ποιητοῦ τὰ ἔπη ταῦτα, ἀλλ’ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ ἀρχαῖα εἶναι ‐ τρίποδασ τὰσ τραπέζασ φησί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 32 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. animate senses

  2. a woman who occupies herself with literary texts

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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