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κωπεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωπεύς κωπέως

Structure: κωπευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. pieces of wood fit for making oars, oar-spars

Declension

Third 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

  • τὸ νεώριον δ’ αὖ κωπέων πλατουμένων, τύλων ψοφούντων, θαλαμιῶν τροπουμένων, αὐλῶν, κελευστῶν, νιγλάρων, συριγμάτων. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:4)
  • οἱ δὲ νεκροὶ καὶ τὰ ναυήγια ἐξεφέποντο ἐσ τὰσ Ἀφέτασ, καὶ περί τε τὰσ πρῴρασ τῶν νεῶν εἱλέοντο καὶ ἐτάρασσον τοὺσ ταρσοὺσ τῶν κωπέων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 12 2:2)

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

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