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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

  • αἱ δὲ καὶ προσαρτίωσ ἐσταλμέναι τοὺσ πρὸσ ἀπάντησιν διατεταγμένουσ παστοὺσ καὶ τὴν ἁρμόζουσαν αἰδὼ παραλείπουσαι, δρόμον ἄτακτον ἐν τῇ πόλει συνίσταντο. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 1:19)
  • ἆ Μοῖραι, τί τοσοῦτον ἀπηνέεσ, οὐδ’ ἐπὶ παστοὺσ ἠγάγετ’ οὐδ’ ἐρατῆσ ἔργα τεκνοσπορίησ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 5682)

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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