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κυμινοπρίστης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυμινοπρίστης κυμινοπρίστου

Structure: κυμινοπριστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pri/w

Sense

  1. a cummin-splitter, a skinflint, niggard

Examples

  • ὁ μάγειροσ ἂν μὲν ὑποδιακόνουσ ἔχων πρὸσ τὸν ἰδιώτην καὶ μαθητὰσ εἰσίῃ, κυμινοπρίστασ πάντασ ἢ λιμοὺσ καλῶν · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 20 1:4)

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

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