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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

  • ἐπιεικῶσ δὲ λάλον ἐστὶ τὸ τῶν κουρέων γένοσ· (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 13 1:2)
  • ἐπιεικῶσ δὲ λάλον ἐστὶ τὸ τῶν κουρέων γένοσ οἱ γὰρ ἀδολεσχότατοι προσρέουσι καὶ προσκαθίζουσιν, ὥστ’ αὐτοὺσ ἀναπίμπλασθαι τῆσ συνηθείασ. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 13 2:2)
  • ἢ οὐ δοκεῖ δεήσειν παιδαγωγῶν, τιτθῶν, τροφῶν, κομμωτριῶν, κουρέων, καὶ αὖ ὀψοποιῶν τε καὶ μαγείρων; (Plato, Republic, book 2 219:2)
  • Ἐφ’ ᾧ τῶν ἐκ τῆσ αὐλῆσ τισ κουρέων, Τρύφων ὄνομα, προεκπηδήσασ ἔκ τινοσ θεοβλαβείασ ἑαυτοῦ μηνυτὴσ γίνεται. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 770:1)

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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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