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μελιττουργός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελιττουργός μελιττουργοῦ

Structure: μελιττουργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: E)/rgw

Sense

  1. a bee-keeper

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

  • ναυκληρικῶν μὲν γὰρ καὶ ἐμπορικῶν καὶ καπηλευτικῶν καὶ πανδοκεύσεων καὶ τελωνικῶν καὶ μεταλλειῶν καὶ δανεισμῶν καὶ ἐπιτόκων τόκων καὶ ἄλλων μυρίων τοιούτων τὰ πολλὰ ἀπήλλακται, χαίρειν αὐτοῖσ εἰπών, ὁ περὶ ταύτην τὴν πόλιν νομοθέτησ, γεωργοῖσ δὲ καὶ νομεῦσι καὶ μελιττουργοῖσ καὶ τοῖσ περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα φυλακτηρίοισ τε καὶ ἐπιστάταισ ὀργάνων νομοθετήσει, τὰ μέγιστα ἤδη νενομοθετηκὼσ περὶ γάμουσ ἅμα καὶ γενέσεισ παίδων καὶ τροφάσ, ἔτι δὲ καὶ παιδείασ ἀρχῶν τε καταστάσεισ ἐν τῇ πόλει· (Plato, Laws, book 8 90:2)
  • δεῖ τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἰατρόν τε καὶ νομοθέτην πόλεωσ μὴ ἧττον ἢ σοφὸν μελιττουργὸν πόρρωθεν εὐλαβεῖσθαι, μάλιστα μὲν ὅπωσ μὴ ἐγγενήσεσθον, ἂν δὲ ἐγγένησθον, ὅπωσ ὅτι τάχιστα σὺν αὐτοῖσι τοῖσ κηρίοισ ἐκτετμήσεσθον. (Plato, Republic, book 8 458:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bee-keeper

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

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