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οἰκότριψ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκότριψ οἰκότριβος

Structure: οἰκοτριβ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: tri/bw

Sense

  1. a slave born and bred in the house

Declension

Third 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

  • ὅπου γὰρ οἰκότριβα τιμώμενον ὑπὸ μητρὸσ ἢ πατρὸσ υἱοὶ προπηλακίζοντεσ καὶ φυτῶν καὶ χωρίων οἷσ ἔχαιρον ἀμελοῦντεσ ἀνιῶσιν αὐτούσ, καὶ κύων τισ οἰκογενὴσ παρορώμενοσ καὶ ἵπποσ ἅπτεται φιλοστόργων καὶ φιλοτίμων γερόντων, ἄχθονται δὲ τοῖσ παισὶν ἀκροάματα καὶ θεάματα καὶ ἀθλητὰσ οὓσ ἐθαύμαζον αὐτοὶ διασύρουσι καὶ καταφρονοῦσιν ἦπου μετρίωσ ἔχουσιν υἱοῖσ δια φερομένοισ καὶ μισοῦσιν ἀλλήλουσ καὶ κακῶσ λέγουσι καὶ πρὸσ ἔργα καὶ πράξεισ ἀντιταττομένοισ ἀεὶ καὶ καταλυομένοισ ὑπ’ ἀλλήλων; (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 52)

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

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