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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

  • τοῖα δὲ δακρύσασα πολύστονοσ ἔννεπε κούρη· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1170)
  • ἡ μὲν ἀλητεύουσα δολοφροσύνῃσιν ὀνείρων μητέρα παπταίνειν ὠίσατο, τοῖα δὲ κούρη ἰάχε θαμβήσασα καὶ ἀχνυμένη περ ἐοῦσα· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1187)
  • ὣσ ἡ μὲν πολύδακρυσ ἐσ ἠέρα φωνήσασα, μητέρα μαστεύουσα, μάτην ἐπλάζετο κούρη. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1199)
  • δεύτερον αὖ θώρηκα περὶ στήθεσσιν ἔδυνε καλὸν χρύσειον πολυδαίδαλον, ὅν οἱ ἔδωκε Παλλὰσ Ἀθηναίη, κούρη Διόσ, ὁππότ’ ἔμελλε τὸ πρῶτον στονόεντασ ἐφορμήσεσθαι ἀέθλουσ. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 11:2)
  • αὐτὰρ Ἀθηναίη, κούρη Διὸσ αἰγιόχοιο, ἀντίη ἦλθεν Ἄρηοσ ἐρεμνὴν αἰγίδ’ ἔχουσα· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 41:1)

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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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