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λάβραξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λάβραξ λάβρακος

Structure: λαβρακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: la/bros

Sense

  1. the bass

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

  • λάβρακεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 861)
  • τίκτουσι δὲ χειμῶνοσ καὶ τίκτουσι δίσ, Ἱκέσιοσ δέ φησιν ὅτι οἱ λάβρακεσ εὔχυλοί εἰσι καὶ οὐ πολύτροφοι, πρὸσ δὲ τὴν ἔκκρισιν ἥσσονεσ, εὐστομίᾳ δὲ πρῶτοι κρίνονται, ὠνομάσθη δ’ ὁ ἰχθὺσ παρὰ τὴν λαβρότητα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 86 1:1)
  • κέστραι τε καὶ λάβρακεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 122 1:11)
  • Ἐπίχαρμοσ δ’ ἐν Ἥβασ γάμῳ φησὶν ἀόνεσ φάγροι τε καὶ λάβρακεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1335)
  • ἀμφιβλήστροισ μὲν γὰρ καὶ ὑποχαῖσ κεστρεῖσ καὶ ἰουλίδεσ ἁλίσκονται, μόρμυροί τε καὶ σαργοὶ καὶ κωβιοὶ καὶ λάβρακεσ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 26 2:1)
  • ἀόνεσ φάγροι τε λάβρακέσ τε καὶ τὸ πίονεσ σκατοφάγοι σάλπαι βδελυχραί, ἁδέαι δ’ ἐν τῷ θέρει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1183)

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

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