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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

  • ταῦτα γὰρ οἱ πένητεσ οὐκ ἔχοντεσ ἀγοράσαι ὑπογάστριον θύννακοσ οὐδὲ κρανίον λάβρακοσ οὐδὲ γόγγρον οὐδὲ σηπίασ, ἃσ οὐδὲ μάκαρασ ὑπερορᾶν οἶμαι θεούσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 65 1:2)
  • ι Ἀριστοτέλησ δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ ζῴων ἠθῶν καὶ βίων φησὶν ὅτι ζῶσιν οἱ κεστρεῖσ κἂν ἀφαιρεθῶσι τὰσ κέρκουσ, ἀπεσθίεται δ’ ὁ μὲν κεστρεὺσ ὑπὸ λάβρακοσ, ὁ δὲ γόγγροσ ὑπὸ μυραίνησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 78 1:2)
  • ἐν δὲ Λημνίαισ, ου’ κρανίον λάβρακοσ, οὐχὶ κάραβον πρίασθαι, ὡσ διαφόρου ὄντοσ τοῦ τῶν λαβράκων ἐγκεφάλου καθάπερ καὶ τοῦ τῶν γλαύκων, καὶ Εὔβουλοσ δ’ ἐν Τιτθαῖσ φησι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 87 1:1)
  • ὅ τι ἂν ᾖ ὁσίασ ἕνεκα, σηπίδια ἢ τευθίδια πλεκτάνια μικρά πουλύποδοσ, νῆστίν τινα, μήτραν, χόρια, πῦον, λάβρακοσ κρανίον εὐμέγεθεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 87 1:3)

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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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