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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

  • ναυβάταισ δὲ τοῖσι σοῖσ βοᾷ κελευστὴσ τὴν ἐναντίαν ὄπα· (Euripides, Helen, episode 5:15)
  • κελευστὴσ δὲ ἐφειστήκει αὐτοῖσ, καὶ πρὸσ τὴν εἰρεσίαν ὀξέωσ ἐκινοῦντο ὥσπερ τὰ μακρὰ τῶν πλοίων. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 40:8)

Related

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

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