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κουρεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κουρεῖον κουρεῖου

Structure: κουρει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: koureu/s

Sense

  1. a barber's shop

Declension

Second 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

  • "διὸ καὶ Θεόφραστοσ ἀοίνα συμπόσια παίζων ἐκάλει τὰ κουρεῖα διὰ τὴν λαλιὰν τῶν προσκαθιζόντων. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 7:4)
  • "ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ τὰ κουρεῖα Θεόφραστοσ εἰώθει καλεῖν ἀοίνα συμπόσια διὰ τὴν λαλιάν, οὕτωσ ἀοίνοσ ἀεὶ μέθη καὶ σκυθρωπὴ ταῖσ τῶν ἀπαιδεύτων ἐνοικεῖ ψυχαῖσ, ἐπιταραττομένη ὑπ’ ὀργῆσ τινοσ ἢ δυσμενείασ ἢ φιλονεικίασ ἢ ἀνελευθερίασ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 5:17)

Related

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

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