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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

  • υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, ἰδοὺ γεγόνασί μοι ὁ οἶκοσ Ἰσραὴλ ἀναμεμειγμένοι πάντεσ χαλκῷ καὶ σιδήρῳ καὶ κασσιτέρῳ καὶ μολίβῳ, ἐν μέσῳ ἀργυρίου ἀναμεμειγμένοσ ἐστί. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 22:18)
  • ὁ πετόμενοσ ἱερὸν ἀνὰ Διὸσ αἰθέρα γοργοφόνοσ, καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἵππου Πίνδαροσ ὅτε παρ’ Ἀλφεῷ σύτο δέμασ ἀκέντητον ἐν δρόμοισι παρέχων καὶ Ὅμηροσ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἱπποδρομίασ ἁρ́ματα δ’ αὖ χαλκῷ πεπυκασμένα κασσιτέρῳ τε ἵπποισ ὠκυπόδεσσιν ἐπέτρεχον· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 10:1)
  • αἰεὶ δ’ ἡνίοχον κονίησ ῥαθάμιγγεσ ἔβαλλον, ἁρ́ματα δὲ χρυσῷ πεπυκασμένα κασσιτέρῳ τε ἵπποισ ὠκυπόδεσσιν ἐπέτρεχον· (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 46:3)

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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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