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νιπτήρ?

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration: niptēr

Principal Part: νιπτήρ νιπτῆρος

Structure: νιπτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: νίζω

Sense

  1. a washing vessel, basin

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νιπτήρ νιπτῆρε νιπτῆρες
Genitive νιπτῆρος νιπτήροιν νιπτήρων
Dative νιπτῆρι νιπτήροιν νιπτῆρσι(ν)
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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