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νυκτερέτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτερέτης νυκτερέτου

Structure: νυκτερετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. one who rows by night

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νυκτερέτης νυκτερέτᾱ νυκτερέται
Genitive νυκτερέτου νυκτερέταιν νυκτερετῶν
Dative νυκτερέτῃ νυκτερέταιν νυκτερέταις
Accusative νυκτερέτην νυκτερέτᾱ νυκτερέτᾱς
Vocative νυκτερέτα νυκτερέτᾱ νυκτερέται

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

  • θηρευτὴσ δολιχὸν τόδε δίκτυον ἄνθετο Δᾶμισ Πίγρησ δ’ ὀρνίθων λεπτόμιτον νεφέλην, τριγλοφόρουσ δὲ χιτῶνασ ὁ νυκτερέτησ θέτο Κλείτωρ τῷ Πανί, τρισσῶν ἐργάτιναι καμάτων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 111)

Synonyms

  1. one who rows by night

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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