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λαμπτήρ?

Third declension Noun; Transliteration: lamptēr

Principal Part: λαμπτήρ λαμπτῆρος

Structure: λαμπτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: λάμπω

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

  • σὺ δὲ λαμπτῆρος φάος ἀμπετάσας δέλτον τε γράφεις τήνδ ἣν πρὸ χερῶν ἔτι βαστάζεις, καὶ ταὐτὰ πάλιν γράμματα συγχεῖς καὶ σφραγίζεις λύεις τ ὀπίσω ῥίπτεις τε πέδῳ πεύκην, θαλερὸν κατὰ δάκρυ χέων, καὶ τῶν ἀπόρων οὐδενὸς ἐνδεῖς μὴ οὐ μαίνεσθαι. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests24)
  • "καὶ ὅπως ἐνταῦθα μὴ Φρύνην ὀνομάζωμεν, ὦ ἑταῖρε, ἢ Λαϊ´ς τις ἢ Γναθαίνιον ἐφέσπερον δαίουσα λαμπτῆρος σέλας ἐκδεχομένη καὶ καλοῦσα παροδεύεται πολλάκις ἐλθὼν δ ἐξαπίνης ἄνεμος σὺν ἔρωτι πολλῷ καὶ πόθῳ ταὐτὸ τοῦτο : (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 16 2:25)
  • μικροῦ γὰρ ἐκ λαμπτῆρος Ἰδαῖον λέπας πρήσειεν ἄν τις: (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 10 3:2)
  • μικροῦ γὰρ ἐκ λαμπτῆρος Ἰδαῖον λέπας πρήσειεν ἄν τις: (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 10 8:1)
  • οὕτως οἱ παλαιοὶ πολλοῖς αἰνίγμασιν ἐχρῶντο καὶ μάλιστα πρὸς τοὺς ἱερεῖς, οἱό῀ν ἐστι καὶ τὸ τοῦ λαμπτῆρος, ἐοίκε γὰρ ὁ λαμπτὴρ τῷ περιέχοντι τὴν ψυχὴν σώματι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 722)

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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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