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παστός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παστός παστοῦ

Structure: παστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = pasta/s II

Sense

  1. a bridal chamber

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

  • ἐν δὲ τοῖσ βασιλείοισ ἀποδιδράσκων εἰσ τὴν γυναικωνῖτιν καθῆστο ἐπὶ χρυσηλάτου κλίνησ ἀναβάδην ὑπὸ ἁλουργέσι παστοῖσ, ὥσπερ ὁ θρηνούμενοσ ὑπὸ τῶν γυναικῶν Ἄδωνισ, ὀξύτερον φθεγγόμενοσ εὐνούχων, τὸν μὲν τράχηλον ἀποκλίνων, ὑπὸ δὲ ἀργίασ καὶ σκιᾶσ λευκὸσ καὶ τρέμων, τὸ σῶμα πελιδνόσ, τοὺσ δὲ ὀφθαλμοὺσ ἀναστρέφων, ὥσπερ ἐξ ἀγχόνησ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bridal chamber

Related

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

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