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παυστήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παυστήρ παυστῆρος

Structure: παυστηρ (Stem)

Etym.: pau/w

Sense

  1. one who stops, calms, a reliever

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative παυστήρ παυστῆρε παυστῆρες
Genitive παυστῆρος παυστήροιν παυστήρων
Dative παυστῆρι παυστήροιν παυστῆρσιν*
Accusative παυστῆρα παυστῆρε παυστῆρας
Vocative παυστήρ παυστῆρε παυστῆρες

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

  • ὕπνοσ, βροτείων, ὦ κόρη, παυστήρ πόνων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 71 1:2)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ Ἀσκληπιὸν παυστῆρα πέμψω σῆσ νόσου πρὸσ Ἴλιον. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode, anapests12)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ Ὀρέστην τῶνδε προσμένουσ’ ἀεὶ παυστῆρ’ ἐφήξειν ἡ τάλαιν’ ἀπόλλυμαι. (Sophocles, episode 1:14)

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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