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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

  • καὶ ἐξέδραι κύκλῳ ἐν αὐταῖσ, κύκλῳ ταῖσ τέσσαρσι, καὶ μαγειρεῖα γεγονότα ὑποκάτω τῶν ἐξεδρῶν κύκλῳ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 46:23)
  • καὶ εἶπε πρόσ με. οὗτοι οἱ οἶκοι τῶν μαγειρείων, οὗ ἑψήσουσιν ἐκεῖ οἱ λειτουργοῦντεσ τῷ οἴκῳ τὰ θύματα τοῦ λαοῦ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 46:24)
  • καὶ ἐφοδεύειν τὰ μαγειρεῖα, τὰ ἰχθυοπώλια, τὰ ταριχοπώλια, καὶ τοὺσ τόκουσ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐμπολήματοσ εἰσ τὴν γνάθον ἐκλέγειν. (Theophrastus, Characters, 9:2)
  • 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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