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κτηνοτροφία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κτηνοτροφία

Structure: κτηνοτροφι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from kthnotro/fos

Sense

  1. cattle-keeping

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

  • ἦν δὲ τιμὴ προβάτου μὲν ὀβολοὶ δέκα, βοὸσ δὲ ἑκατόν, οὔπω νομίσματι χρωμένων πολλῷ τότε Ῥωμαίων, ἀλλὰ προβατείαισ καὶ κτηνοτροφίαισ εὐθηνούντων. (Plutarch, Publicola, chapter 11 4:1)
  • δικαιοτάτων ἔργων τὰσ καθ’ ἡμέραν ἑκάστῳ παρέχουσαν εὐπορίασ, ἀνανεώσασθαι πάλιν αὐτὴν παρεκάλει γεωργίαισ τε καὶ κτηνοτροφίαισ καὶ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ ἐργασίαισ, ὅσαισ μηθὲν ἀδίκημα προσῆν, ἁρπαγῆσ δὲ καὶ βίασ καὶ τῶν ἐκ τοῦ πολέμου γινομένων ὠφελειῶν ὑπεριδεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 36 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. cattle-keeping

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

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