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κωμαστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωμαστής κωμαστοῦ

Structure: κωμαστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: kwma/zw

Sense

  1. a reveller
  2. the jolly

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

  • τίνι δαιμόνων ἄγουσι κωμαστὴν χορόν; (Lucian, 18)
  • ἀμφί μοι αὖτε Φοῖβ’ ἄναξ Δήλιε Κυνθίαν ἔχων ὑψικέρατα πέτραν, ἥ τ’ Ἐφέσου μάκαιρα πάγχρυσον ἔχεισ οἶκον ἐν ᾧ κόραι σε Λυδῶν μεγάλωσ σέβουσιν, ἥ τ’ ἐπιχώριοσ ἡμετέρα θεὸσ αἰγίδοσ ἡνίοχοσ πολιοῦχοσ Ἀθάνα, Παρνασσίαν θ’ ὃσ κατέχων πέτραν σὺν πεύκαισ σελαγεῖ Βάκχαισ Δελφίσιν ἐμπρέπων, κωμαστὴσ Διόνυσοσ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parabasis, antistrophe1)
  • Ἐπίχαρμοσ δ’ ἐν Κωμασταῖσ βραχέωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 41 2:5)
  • Κωμασταῖσ οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 49 4:1)
  • Φρύνιχοσ Κωμασταῖσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 48 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a reveller

Related

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

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