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μαγειρεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαγειρεῖον μαγειρεῖου

Structure: μαγειρει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ma/geiros

Sense

  1. a cook-shop
  2. the place where the public cooks lived, the cooks' quarter

Declension

Second 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

  • Μετὰ δ’ οὐ πολὺ πάντων αὐτοὺσ τῶν ἐδεστῶν ἐπιλιπόντων, οὐ καρπὸν ἔχοντεσ, οὐ πρόβατον, οὐ πόαν, πρῶτα μέν, ὥσπερ τινὲσ ἐν πολέμων ἀνάγκαισ, δέρματα ἕψοντεσ ἐλιχμῶντο, ἐπιλιπόντων δ’ αὐτοὺσ καὶ τῶν δερμάτων ἐσαρκοφάγουν ἕψοντεσ τὰ ἀνθρώπεια, πρῶτα μὲν τὰ τῶν ἀποθνησκόντων κοπτόμενα ἐν μαγειρείοισ, ἐπὶ δ’ ἐκείνοισ τῶν νοσούντων κατεφρόνουν, καὶ τοὺσ ἀσθενεστέρουσ ἐβιάζοντο οἱ δυνατώτεροι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 15 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a cook-shop

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

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