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μαχαιροπώλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαχαιροπώλιον

Structure: μαχαιροπωλι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from maxairopw/lhs

Sense

  1. a cutler's shop

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ ὁ Φορμίων ἠγωνίζετο λόγῳ Δημοσθένουσ πρὸσ τὸν Ἀπολλόδωρον, ἀτεχνῶσ καθάπερ ἐξ ἑνὸσ μαχαιροπωλίου τὰ κατ’ ἀλλήλων ἐγχειρίδια πωλοῦντοσ αὐτοῦ τοῖσ ἀντιδίκοισ. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 15 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a cutler's shop

Similar forms

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

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