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κασσίτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κασσίτερος κασσίτερᾱ κασσίτερον

Structure: κασσιτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: A foreign word.

Sense

  1. tin, tin

Declension

First/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

  • πλὴν τοῦ χρυσίου καὶ τοῦ ἀργυρίου καὶ χαλκοῦ καὶ σιδήρου καὶ μολίβου καὶ κασσιτέρου, (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 31:22)
  • τὰ δὲ πίνοντά τε ἡδέωσ ὁρᾶται, καὶ λόγοσ κατέχει ὅτι καὶ ὠφέλιμον αὐτοῖσ τοῦτο τὸ ποτόν ἐστιν τοῦ γλυκέοσ μᾶλλον, ἡ δὲ χρόα τῷ Φάσιδι οἱά ἀπὸ μολίβδου ἢ κασσιτέρου βεβαμμένου τοῦ ὕδατοσ· (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 8 6:1)
  • ἐπεὶ πολλοῦ ἄν, μᾶλλον δὲ τοῦ παντὸσ ἦν ἄξιον, εἰ μεταπλάσαι καὶ μετακοσμῆσαι τὰ τηλικαῦτα ἠδύνατο ἢ ἐκ μολύβδου χρυσὸν ἀποφῆναι ἢ ἄργυρον ἐκ κασσιτέρου ἢ ἀπὸ Κόνωνοσ Τίτορμον ἢ ἀπὸ Λεωτροφίδου Μίλωνα ἐξεργάσασθαι. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 34 1:3)
  • ὅσοι γοῦν ἱερεῖσ, ἄλλοσ ἄλλο εἶναι λέγουσι καὶ οὐδὲ περὶ τῆσ ὕλησ αὐτῆσ ὁμολογοῦσιν, ἀλλ̓ οἱ μὲν χαλκοῦ, οἱ δὲ ἀργύρου, οἱ δὲ χρυσοῦ, οἱ δὲ κασσιτέρου εἶναι αὐτὸ φάσκουσιν. (Lucian, 80:3)
  • ἀμφὶ δὲ κυανέην κάπετον, περὶ δ’ ἑρ́κοσ ἔλασσε κασσιτέρου· (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 53:3)

Related

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

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