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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κρεουργία κρεουργίᾱ κρεουργίαι
Genitive κρεουργίᾱς κρεουργίαιν κρεουργιῶν
Dative κρεουργίᾱͅ κρεουργίαιν κρεουργίαις
Accusative κρεουργίᾱν κρεουργίᾱ κρεουργίᾱς
Vocative κρεουργίᾱ κρεουργίᾱ κρεουργίαι

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

  • ἡ γὰρ Σάμοσ εὐθὺσ καὶ τὸ Πολυκράτουσ πάθοσ καὶ τῆσ θυγατρὸσ αὐτοῦ μέχρι Περσῶν πλάνη, καὶ τὰ ἔτι ἀρχαιότερα, ἡ τοῦ Ταντάλου φλυαρία καὶ ἡ παρ’ αὐτῷ θεῶν ἑστίασισ καὶ ἡ Πέλοποσ κρεουργία καὶ ὁ ἐλεφάντινοσ ὦμοσ αὐτοῦ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 54:2)

Synonyms

  1. a cutting up

Similar forms

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

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