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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

  • τοὺσ μὲν γὰρ λαγὼσ λέγουσι τίκτειν ἅμα καὶ τρέφειν ἕτερα καὶ ἐπικυΐσκεσθαι πάλιν, τὰ δὲ τῶν μαστιγιῶν τούτων καὶ βαρβάρων χρέα πρὶν ἢ συλλαβεῖν τίκτει· (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 4 6:1)

Related

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

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