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πάππος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πάππος πάππου

Structure: παππ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: akin to pa/ppas

Sense

  1. a grandfather, one's grand-parents, ancestors

Declension

Second 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

  • Ὑπὲρ αὐτῆσ μὲν ἐσίγα, ὦ Δωρί, καὶ ἔφερε τὴν καταδίκην, τὸ βρέφοσ δὲ παρῃτεῖτο μὴ ἀποθανεῖν δακρύουσα καὶ τῷ πάππῳ δεικνύουσα αὐτό, κάλλιστον ὄν· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, doris and thetis, chapter 22)
  • ἐννόησον δ’ ὅτι τὰσ ἐνίων ἀβελτερίασ καὶ βλακείασ ἐλέγχουσιν ἑτέρων πανουργίαι καὶ δριμύτητεσ, ὅταν ἀλώπεκι καὶ λύκῳ καὶ μελίττῃ παραβάλῃσ ὄνον καὶ πρόβατον ὥσπερ εἰ σαυτῷ τὸν Πολύφημον ἢ τῷ πάππῳ σου τῷ Αὐτολύκῳ τὸν Κορίνθιον ἐκεῖνον Ὅμηρον. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 10 3:2)
  • Μιλτιάδησ μὲν οὖν πεντήκοντα ταλάντων ὀφλὼν δίκην καὶ πρὸσ τὴν ἔκτισιν εἱρχθεὶσ ἐτελεύτησεν ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ, Κίμων δὲ μειράκιον παντάπασιν ἀπολειφθεὶσ μετὰ τῆσ ἀδελφῆσ ἔτι κόρησ οὔσησ καὶ ἀγάμου τὸν πρῶτον ἠδόξει χρόνον ἐν τῇ πόλει καὶ κακῶσ ἤκουεν ὡσ ἄτακτοσ καὶ πολυπότησ καὶ τῷ πάππῳ Κίμωνι προσεοικὼσ τὴν φύσιν, ὃν δι’ εὐήθειάν φασι Κοάλεμον προσαγορευθῆναι. (Plutarch, , chapter 4 3:1)
  • διηγεῖτο γοῦν ἡμῶν τῷ πάππῳ Λαμπρίᾳ Φιλώτασ ὁ Ἀμφισσεὺσ ἰατρὸσ εἶναι μὲν ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ τότε, μανθάνων τὴν τέχνην, γενόμενοσ δέ τινι τῶν βασιλικῶν ὀψοποιῶν συνήθησ ἀναπεισθῆναι νέοσ ὢν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ τὴν πολυτέλειαν καὶ τὴν παρασκευὴν τοῦ δείπνου θεάσασθαι. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 28 2:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὁ τούτου πατὴρ Νικιάδησ ἀδελφιδοῦσ ἦν τῷ πάππῳ τῷ ἐμῷ καὶ τῇ τήθῃ, ἀνεψιὸσ δὲ τῷ πατρί. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 26:4)

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

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