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γυναικονόμος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: γυναικονόμος γυναικονόμου

Structure: γυναικονομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gunh/, ne/mw

Sense

  1. supervisor of women, the title of magistrate at Athens who maintains manners among women

Declension

Second 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

  • ἀνοίγετ’ ἤδη τὰσ θύρασ, ἵνα πρὸσ τὸ φῶσ ὦμεν καταφανεῖσ μᾶλλον, ἐφοδεύων ἐὰν βούληθ’ ὁ γυναικονόμοσ ἀπολαβεῖν τὸν ἀριθμόν,, κατὰ τὸν νόμον τὸν καινὸν ὅπερ εἰώθε δρᾶν, τῶν ἑστιωμένων, ἔδει δὲ τοὔμπαλιν τὰσ τῶν ἀδείπνων ἐξετάζειν οἰκίασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 461)
  • εἰσὶ δὲ αἱ μὲν πολιτικαὶ τῶν ἐπιμελειῶν, ἢ πάντων τῶν πολιτῶν πρόσ τινα πρᾶξιν, οἱο͂ν στρατηγὸσ στρατευομένων, ἢ κατὰ μέροσ, οἱο͂ν ὁ γυναικονόμοσ ἢ παιδονόμοσ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 244:1)
  • παιδονόμοσ δὲ καὶ γυναικονόμοσ, καὶ εἴ τισ ἄλλοσ ἄρχων κύριόσ ἐστι τοιαύτησ ἐπιμελείασ, ἀριστοκρατικόν, δημοκρατικὸν δ’ οὔ πῶσ γὰρ οἱο͂́ν τε κωλύειν ἐξιέναι τὰσ τῶν ἀπόρων; (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 260:3)

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