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κασαλβάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κασαλβάς κασαλβάδος

Structure: κασαλβαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: like ka/ssa

Sense

  1. a courtesan, harlot

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

  • ὅμωσ δ’ ἐάν τι πολλὰ πολλάκισ πάθω ὑπὸ τοῖνδε τοῖν κασαλβάδοιν δεῦρ’ ἐσπλέων, θάψαι μ’ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ τῷ στόματι τῆσ ἐσβολῆσ, καὶ τήνδ’ ἄνωθεν ἐπιπολῆσ τοῦ σήματοσ ζῶσαν καταπιττώσαντεσ εἶτα τὼ πόδε μολυβδοχοήσαντεσ κύκλῳ περὶ τὰ σφυρὰ ἄνω ’πιθεῖναι πρόφασιν ἀντὶ ληκύθου. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 2 4:29)
  • ἀλλ’ ὡρᾳζέαι διαφρονεῦσα, καὶ ͅ κασαλβάδασ δέκα ἀπ εό ντι δώμαθ’ ἵκἐ εἰσάγουσά ͅ μοι. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 572)

Synonyms

  1. a courtesan

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

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