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κουρεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κουρεύς κουρέως

Structure: κουρευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kei/rw

Sense

  1. a barber, hair-cutter

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

  • φέρε δὴ καὶ πρὸσ ταῦτα πόρρωθεν ἐν τοῖσ ἐπιτυχοῦσι καὶ μικροῖσ γυμνάζωμεν ἑαυτούσ, ἐθίζοντεσ μήτε κουρεῖ μήτε γναφεῖ κατὰ δυσωπίαν χρῆσθαι μηδὲ καταλύειν· (Plutarch, De vitioso pudore, section 8 4:1)
  • "ἐν Βυζαντίῳ δὲ ζημίασ ἐπικειμένησ τῷ ἔχοντι κουρεῖ ξυρὸν οὐδὲν ἧττον πάντεσ χρῶνται αὐτῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 18 4:5)
  • καὶ προαγαγὼν εἰσ ἐκκλησίαν τριακοσίουσ τε τῶν ἡγεμόνων τοὺσ ἐν αἰτίᾳ γενομένουσ καὶ τὸν Τίρωνα σὺν τῷ παιδὶ καὶ τῷ πρὸ ἐκείνου διελέγχοντι κουρεῖ κατηγορίαν ἁπάντων αὐτῶν ἐποιήσατο. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 464:1)

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

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