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κελευστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κελευστής κελευστοῦ

Structure: κελευστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: keleu/w

Sense

  1. the signalman, who gave the time to the rowers

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ τοῖσ κυβερνήταισ τῶν μὲν φυλακήν, τῶν δ’ ἐπιβουλὴν μὴ καθ’ ἓν ἕκαστον, κατὰ πολλὰ δὲ πανταχόθεν περιεστάναι, καὶ τὸν κτύπον μέγαν ἀπὸ πολλῶν νεῶν συμπιπτουσῶν, ἔκπληξίν τε ἅμα καὶ ἀποστέρησιν τῆσ ἀκοῆσ ὧν οἱ κελευσταὶ ἐφθέγγοντο παρέχειν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 26 3:2)

Related

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

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