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κρεοκόπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρεοκόπος κρεοκόπον

Structure: κρεοκοπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ko/ptw

Sense

  1. a cutter up of flesh.

Examples

  • καταλαμβανόμενοσ δ’ ὑπὸ τῶν ἱππέων εἰσ ἐργαστήριον εἰστρέχει μαγειρικὸν καὶ κοπίδα τῶν κρεοκόπων ἁρπάσασ παίει τὸν πρῶτον αὐτῷ προσ‐ ελθόντα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 12, chapter 2 7:4)

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

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