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κοσκινόμαντις

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοσκινόμαντις κοσκινόμαντεως

Structure: κοσκινομαντι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from ko/skinon

Sense

  1. a diviner by a sieve

Examples

  • εἶπε καὶ ἀγροιῶτισ ἀλαθέα κοσκινόμαντισ, ἁ πρᾶν ποιολογεῦσα Παραιβάτισ, οὕνεκ’ ἐγὼ μὲν τὶν ὅλοσ ἔγκειμαι, τὺ δέ μευ λόγον οὐδένα ποιῇ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 25)

Synonyms

  1. a diviner by a sieve

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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