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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

  • Ἀλέξαρχοσ ὁ τὴν Οὐρανόπολιν κτίσασ διαλέκτουσ ἰδίασ εἰσήνεγκεν, ὀρθροβόαν μὲν τὸν ἀλεκτρυόνα καλέων καὶ βροτοκέρτην τὸν κουρέα καὶ τὴν δραχμὴν ἀργυρίδα, τὴν δὲ χοίνικα ἡμεροτροφίδα καὶ τὸν κήρυκα ἀπύτην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 54 2:2)
  • τοῦτο βαφεὺσ ἐπόησε, τὸ μηκέτι κουρέα τέμνειν μήτε κόμην λευκὴν μήτε μελαινομένην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 3982)
  • τίσ ἄν ποτε ἤλπισεν Ἰνδῶν ἄρξειν κουρέα, Λυδῶν βασιλεύσειν ποιμένα, τῆσ Ἀσίασ ἡγεμονεύσειν γυναῖκα; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 35:3)
  • ταῦτ’ ἀκούσασ Ἡρώδησ τόν τε Τίρωνα σὺν τῷ παιδὶ καὶ τὸν κουρέα βασάνοισ διήλεγχεν, καὶ τῶν μὲν ἀρνουμένων, τοῦ δὲ μηδὲν πλέον λέγοντοσ, στρεβλοῦν ἐκέλευσεν τὸν Τίρωνα σφοδρότερον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 771:1)
  • κουρέα δὲ ἤδη πώποτ’ εἶδεσ προσιόντα τῳ καὶ λέγοντα, ὦ βέλτιστε ἀνδρῶν παράσχεσ μοι κεῖραι σεαυτὸν, ἢ τῶν ὀνύχων ἀφελεῖν, ἢ ξέσαι, ταῦτα γὰρ ἔσθ’ ἡ ’μὴ τέχνη; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:16)

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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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