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μητροφόντης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μητροφόντης μητροφόντου

Structure: μητροφοντ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: = mhtrofo/nos, Eur.

Sense

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

  • ὁ μητροφόντησ ὅδε πρὸ δωμάτων δράκων στίλβει νοσώδεισ ἀστραπάσ, στύγημ’ ἐμόν. (Euripides, episode, iambic 6:3)
  • ὁ μητροφόντησ δ’ οὐ καλῇ ταύτην κτανών, ἀλλ’ ἀπολιπὼν τοῦτ’ ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον πεσῇ, Ἑλένησ λεγόμενοσ τῆσ πολυκτόνου φονεύσ. (Euripides, episode, anapests 4:38)
  • ὁ μητροφόντησ ἐπὶ φόνῳ πράσσει φόνον; (Euripides, episode, iambic27)
  • καὶ ἐν τοῖσ ἐπιθέτοισ ἔστιν μὲν τὰσ ἐπιθέσεισ ποιεῖσθαι ἀπὸ φαύλου ἢ αἰσχροῦ, οἱο͂ν ὁ μητροφόντησ, ἔστι δ’ ἀπὸ τοῦ βελτίονοσ, οἱο͂ν ὁ πατρὸσ ἀμύντωρ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 2 14:1)

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

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