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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

  • ἀλλ’ εὖ οἶδ’ ὅτι κυμινοπρίστησ ὁ τρόποσ ἐστί σου πάλαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 68 3:3)
  • τούτων δὲ καὶ ὁ κυμινοπρίστησ καὶ πᾶσ ὁ τοιοῦτοσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 35:1)

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

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