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κρεουργία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρεουργία

Structure: κρεουργι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from kreourgo/s

Sense

  1. a cutting up, butchering.

Declension

First 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

  • ὅτι γὰρ ἦσαν καὶ παρὰ τοῖσ ἀρχαίοισ αἱ δεύτεραι τράπεζαι πολυτελῶσ μεμεριμνημέναι, παρίστησιν Πίνδαροσ ἐν Ὀλυμπιονίκαισ περὶ τῆσ Πέλοποσ κρεουργίασ διηγούμενοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 481)

Synonyms

  1. a cutting up

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

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