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κρεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρεῖον κρεῖου

Structure: κρει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: kre/as

Sense

  1. a meat-tray, dresser

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

  • ὦ μάταιοι, τῆσ ἀνοίασ, οὐκ εἰδότεσ ἡλίκοισ ὁρ́οισ διακέκριται τὰ νεκρῶν καὶ τὰ ζώντων πράγματα καὶ οἱᾶ τὰ παρ’ ἡμῖν ἐστι καὶ ὅτι κάτθαν’ ὁμῶσ ὃ τ’ ἄτυμβοσ ἀνὴρ ὃσ τ’ ἔλλαχε τύμβου, ἐν δὲ ἰῇ τιμῇ Ἶροσ κρείων τ’ Ἀγαμέμνων Θερσίτῃ; (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 22:12)
  • ὄρσ1’ Ἀσκληπιάδη, καλέει κρείων σε Χαρωνεύσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 2 2:1)
  • τῶν δ’ ἄρ’ ἔλοψ κρείων δουρικλυτὸσ ἡγεμόνευεν, οὗ πλήρησ περ ἐὼν κρατερῶσ παλάμῃ ἐπορέχθην γεύσασθ’ ἱμείρων τὸ δὲ γ’ ἀμβροσίη μοι ἔδοξεν, οἱήν δαίνυνται μάκαρεσ θεοὶ αἰὲν ἐόντεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 12:3)
  • "καὶ μ’ Ἀντηνορίδησ ἐφόρει κρείων Ἑλικάων νῦν δέ με Λητοΐδου θεῖον ἔχει δάπεδον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1923)
  • καὶ πάλιν αὐτὰρ ὁ Ταλθύβιον προίει κρείων Ἀγαμέμνων νῆασ ἐπὶ γλαφυρὰσ ἰέναι ἠδ’ ἄρν’ ἐκέλευσεν οἰσέμεναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 79 3:1)
  • ^ οὐ γὰρ ἔγωγὲ τί φημι τέλοσ χαριέστερον εἶναι, ἢ ὅτ’ ἂν εὐφροσύνη μὲν ἔχῃ κάτα δῆμον ἅπαντα, δαιτυμόνεσ δ’ ἀνὰ δώματ’ ἀκουάζωνται ἀοιδοῦ ἥμενοι ἑξείησ,^ παρὰ δὲ πλήθωσι τράπεζαι σίτου καὶ κρειῶν, μέθυ δ’ ἐκ κρητῆροσ ἀφύσσων οἰνοχόοσ φορέῃσι καὶ ἐγχείῃ δεπάεσσι. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 10:2)
  • παρὰ δὲ πλήθωσι τράπεζαι σίτου καὶ κρειῶν. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 10:14)
  • δαιτρὸσ δὲ κρειῶν πίνακασ παρέθηκεν ἀείρασ, καὶ τούτων ὀπτῶν καὶ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ βοείων· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 15 1:2)

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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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