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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

  • ἐν τῷ αἱ λιθοτομίαι ἔνεισι αἱ ἐσ τὰσ πυραμίδασ κατατμηθεῖσαι τὰσ ἐν Μέμφι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 8 2:3)
  • ἔχεται δὲ κατύπερθε τοῦ πεδίου τὸ κατὰ Μέμφιν τεῖνον ὄροσ, ἐν τῷ αἱ λιθοτομίαι ἔνεισι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 158 3:4)
  • ὄρη δὲ Ἀθηναίοισ ἐστὶ Πεντελικὸν ἔνθα λιθοτομίαι, καὶ Πάρνησ παρεχομένη θήραν συῶν ἀγρίων καὶ ἄρκτων, καὶ Ὑμηττὸσ ὃσ φύει νομὰσ μελίσσαισ ἐπιτηδειοτάτασ πλὴν τῆσ Ἀλαζώνων. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 32 2:1)

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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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