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καυτήρ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καυτήρ καυτῆρος

Structure: καυτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: kai/w

Sense

  1. a burner

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative καυτήρ καυτῆρε καυτῆρες
Genitive καυτῆρος καυτήροιν καυτήρων
Dative καυτῆρι καυτήροιν καυτῆρσιν*
Accusative καυτῆρα καυτῆρε καυτῆρας
Vocative καυτήρ καυτῆρε καυτῆρες

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

  • τὸν δὲ ταύρῳ χαλκέῳ καυτῆρα νηλέα νόον ἐχθρὰ Φάλαριν κατέχει παντᾷ φάτισ, οὐδέ νιν φόρμιγγεσ ὑπωρόφιαι κοινωνίαν μαλθακὰν παίδων ὀάροισι δέκονται. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 1 33:2)
  • ἢν οὖν ἐσ ἀνάγκην τομῆσ κατίῃσ κοτὲ, καυτῆρα ἔμπυρον διαφανέα πυρῶσαι, καὶ διῶσαι μέσφι τοῦ πύου. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 252)

Similar forms

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

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