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λαμπτήρ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαμπτήρ λαμπτῆρος

Structure: λαμπτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: la/mpw

Sense

  1. a stand or grate, for lighting rooms, thou that lightest up, watch-fires

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

  • εἰ γὰρ φαεννοὶ μὴ ξυνέσχον ἡλίου λαμπτῆρεσ, οὔτἂν ἔσχον εὐτυχοῦν δόρυ, πρὶν ναῦσ πυρῶσαι καὶ διὰ σκηνῶν μολεῖν κτείνων Ἀχαιοὺσ τῇδε πολυφόνῳ χερί. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode5)
  • κεῖνοσ γὰρ ἄκρασ νυκτόσ, ἡνίχ’ ἕσπεροι λαμπτῆρεσ οὐκέτ’ ᾖθον, ἄμφηκεσ λαβὼν ἐμαίετ’ ἔγχοσ ἐξόδουσ ἑρ́πειν κενάσ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 1:2)
  • πολλοὶ δ’ ἀνῇθον, ἐκτυφλωθέντεσ σκότῳ, λαμπτῆρεσ ἐν δόμοισι δεσποίνησ χάριν· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 1:24)

Related

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

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