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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

  • ὅστισ πυρὸσ λαμπτῆρασ ἐξήρθησ κλύων φλέγειν Ἀχαιούσ, καὶ στρατὸν μέλλεισ ἄγειν τάφρουσ ὑπερβὰσ νυκτὸσ ἐν καταστάσει. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:17)
  • ἐπιδεικνύμενοι δὲ τὴν φύσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ δύναμιν οἱ βάρβαροι τὸν ἄγοντα πρὸσ τὴν κατάλυσιν τοῦ βασιλέωσ στενωπὸν ἐλαφρῶ τῷ φαρμάκῳ κατεψέκασαν εἶτα στάντεσ ἐπ’ ἄκρῳ τοὺσ λαμπτῆρασ τοῖσ βεβρεγμένοισ προσέθηκαν ἤδη γὰρ συνεσκόταζε. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 35 2:1)
  • "διὰ τί τῶν ἐπ’ οἰωνοῖσ ἱερέων, οὓσ Αὔσπικασ πρότερον Αὔγουρασ δὲ νῦν καλοῦσιν, ᾤοντο δεῖν ἀεὶ τοὺσ λαμπτῆρασ ἀνεῳγμένουσ εἶναι καὶ τὸ πῶμα μὴ ἐπικεῖσθαι; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 721)
  • "διὰ τί τῶν ἐπ’ οἰωνοῖσ ἱερέων, οὓσ Αὔσπικασ πρότερον Αὔγουρασ δὲ νῦν καλοῦσιν, ᾤοντο δεῖν ἀεὶ τοὺσ λαμπτῆρασ ἀνεῳγμένουσ εἶναι καὶ τὸ πῶμα μὴ ἐπικεῖσθαι; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 721)
  • αὐτίκα λαμπτῆρασ τρεῖσ ἵστασαν ἐν μεγάροισιν, ὄφρα φαείνοιεν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 18 49:1)

Related

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

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