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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

  • καὶ Ἀριστοφάνησ δ’ ἐν Ἱππεῦσι μνημονεύει ὡσ διαφόρων γινομένων τῶν περὶ τὴν Μίλητον λαβράκων, ὅταν οὕτωσ λέγῃ ἀλλ’ οὐ λάβρακασ καταφαγὼν Μιλησίουσ κλονήσεισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 871)
  • 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)
  • Ἄρχιπποσ ἐν Ἰχθύσι μνημονεύων τῶν λαβράκων φησὶν Αἰγύπτιοσ μιαρώτατοσ τῶν ἰχθύων κάπηλοσ, Ἕρμαιοσ, ὃσ βίᾳ δέρων ῥίνασ γαλεούσ τε πωλεῖ καὶ τοὺσ λάβρακασ ἐντερεύων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 87 2:1)

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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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