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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

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

  • ὁ δὲ τύποσ τοῦ καυτῆροσ ἔστω ἀλώπηξ ἢ πίθηκοσ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 46:3)
  • 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)
  • χρὴ ὦν ἀφαιρέοντα τὰσ κόμασ ξυρῷ, ̔καὶ γὰρ τόδε κεφαλῇ ὀνηϊστὸν,̓ καίειν πυρίῃσι καυτήρων, ἐπιπολῆσ μὲν ἐσ μύασ· ἢν δὲ μέσφι ὀστέου ἐθέλῃσ, ἀπάνευθεν καὶ τῶν μυῶν· μύεσ γὰρ καυθέντεσ ἐάσι σπασμῶν προκλήσιεσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 45)

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

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