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κατευναστής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατευναστής κατευναστές

Structure: κατευναστη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from kateuna/zw

Sense

  1. one who conducts to bed, a chamberlain

Examples

  • "ἔστι δέ τισ ἐκεῖ κομιστὴρ ἐνθένδε καὶ ἀρωγὸσ ἐν τέλει γενομένων κατευναστὴσ καὶ ψυχοπομπόσ, ὥσπερ ὁ Ὕπνοσ, οὐ γάρ με Νὺξ ἔτικτε δεσπότην λύρασ, οὐ μάντιν οὐδ’ ἰατρόν, ἀλλὰ θνητὸν ἅμα ψυχαῖσ. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 15 1:7)

Synonyms

  1. one who conducts to bed

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

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