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λιθοτομία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιθοτομία

Structure: λιθοτομι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from liqoto/mos

Sense

  1. a place where stone is cut, a quarry;, quarries

Declension

First 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

  • ἐπὶ θάλασσαν δὲ ἐσ Γύθιον καταβαίνοντί ἐστι Λακεδαιμονίοισ ἡ κώμη καλουμένη Κροκέαι καὶ λιθοτομία· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 6:1)
  • ἅ γ’ ἐστὶ ξηρότερα καὶ ψεδνότερα παντὸσ οὗ τισ ἂν εἰκάζων εὑρ́οι, ὥστ’ ἔν γε τῇ Ἀραβικῇ καὶ ἡ περιβόητοσ αὕτη λιθοτομία ἡ πορφυρῖτίσ ἐστιν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 19:7)
  • θεῶν δὲ αὐτόθι πρὸ μὲν τῆσ κώμησ Διὸσ Κροκεάτα λίθου πεποιημένον ἄγαλμα ἕστηκε, Διόσκουροι δὲ ἐπὶ τῇ λιθοτομίᾳ χαλκοῖ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 7:2)

Related

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

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