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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

  • ἀλλ’ ὁρῶ τινα λάβρακα εὐμεγέθη, μᾶλλον δὲ χρύσοφρυν· (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 48:1)
  • λάβρακα μετὰ ταῦτ’ ἐπριάμην καλὸν σφόδρα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 41 1:4)
  • λάμβανε δ’ ἐκ Γαίσωνοσ ὅταν Μίλητον ἵκηαι, κεστρέα τὸν κέφαλον καὶ τὸν θεόπαιδα λάβρακα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 86 2:4)
  • τὴν τ’ εὐπρόσωπον λοπάδα τοῦδε τοῦ θαλαττίου Γλαύκου φέρουσαν εὐγενέστερον λάβρακὰ θ’ ἑφθὸν ἅλμῃ μίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 462)

Related

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

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