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μαστιγίης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαστιγίης μαστιγίου

Structure: μαστιγι (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: ma/stic

Sense

  1. one that always wants whipping, a worthless slave, a sorry knave

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

  • εἰρωνεύῃ ταῦτα πρὸσ ἐμέ, τυμβωρύχε καὶ μιαρὲ καὶ κατάπτυστε καὶ μαστιγία καὶ κάθαρμα; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 52:5)
  • κατάθου ταχέωσ μαστιγία. (Aristotle, Episode 1:40)
  • εἰσ κόρακασ, ὦ μαστιγία. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 5512)

Related

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

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