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νιπτήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νιπτήρ νιπτῆρος

Structure: νιπτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: ni/zw

Sense

  1. a washing vessel, basin

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νιπτήρ νιπτῆρε νιπτῆρες
Genitive νιπτῆρος νιπτήροιν νιπτήρων
Dative νιπτῆρι νιπτήροιν νιπτῆρσιν*
Accusative νιπτῆρα νιπτῆρε νιπτῆρας
Vocative νιπτήρ νιπτῆρε νιπτῆρες

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

  • ἀλλὰ μὴν οὐδ’ ὧν ὁ Πλάτων εἴρηκε περὶ Σωκράτουσ τῶν κωμικῶν τισ εἴρηκεν, οὔθ’ ὅτι μαίασ βλοσυρᾶσ υἱὸσ ἦν οὔθ’ ὅτι Ξανθίππη χαλεπὴ ἦν γυνή, ἥτισ καὶ νιπτῆρασ αὐτοῦ κατέχει τῆσ κεφαλῆσ, οὔθ’ ὡσ Ἀλκιβιάδῃ συνεκοιμήθη ὑπὸ τὴν αὐτὴν γενόμενοσ χλαῖναν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 611)
  • εἶτα βάλλει ὕδωρ εἰσ τὸν νιπτῆρα, καὶ ἤρξατο νίπτειν τοὺσ πόδασ τῶν μαθητῶν καὶ ἐκμάσσειν τῷ λεντίῳ ᾧ ἦν διεζωσμένοσ. (, chapter 6 406:1)

Synonyms

  1. a washing vessel

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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