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καπηλεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καπηλεία

Structure: καπηλει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from ka/phlos

Sense

  1. retail trade, tavern-keeping

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative καπηλεία καπηλείᾱ καπηλεῖαι
Genitive καπηλείᾱς καπηλείαιν καπηλειῶν
Dative καπηλείᾱͅ καπηλείαιν καπηλείαις
Accusative καπηλείᾱν καπηλείᾱ καπηλείᾱς
Vocative καπηλείᾱ καπηλείᾱ καπηλεῖαι

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

  • "ἐπὶ τούτῳ τὸν λόγον τόνδε συνέγραψεν ὁ ^ ἐμὲ προεισπέμψασ ὑμῖν, ὡσ δείξειε τὸν ἀοίδιμον σοφιστὴν τὰ κοινὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἀγνοοῦντα καὶ ὁπόσα κἂν οἱ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐργαστηρίων καὶ τῶν καπηλείων εἰδεῖεν. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 5:22)
  • "ἦσαν δὲ οἱ Βυζάντιοι καὶ διὰ τὸ δημοκρατεῖσθαι πολὺν ἤδη χρόνον καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐπ’ ἐμπορίου κειμένην ἔχειν καὶ τὸν δῆμον ἅπαντα περὶ τὴν ἀγορὰν καὶ τὸν λιμένα διατρίβειν ἀκόλαστοι καὶ συνουσιάζειν καὶ πίνειν εἰθισμένοι ἐπὶ τῶν καπηλείων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:103)
  • πολλάκισ γὰρ εὑρήσεισ ἐν σπουδαίῳ κεράμῳ τὸν ἐκ τῶν καπηλείων οἶνον ἐξεστηκότα· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 19:4)
  • τούσ γε μὴν καπήλουσ ἑκάστοτε ὁρῶντεσ πρὸ τῶν καπηλείων ἀνεζωσμένουσ οὐδέποτε τωθάζουσι, καταγελῷεν δ̓ ἂν τοὐναντίον, εἰ μὴ οὕτωσ ἐνεσκευασμένοι εἰε͂ν, ὡσ οἰκείου τοῦ σχήματοσ ὑπάρχοντοσ τῇ ἐργασίᾳ, ἣν μεταχειρίζονται. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. retail trade

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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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