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πειρατήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πειρατήριον

Structure: πειρατηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: = pei=ra

Sense

  1. ordeal
  2. a pirate's nest

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

  • Γάδ, πειρατήριον πειρατεύσει αὐτόν, αὐτὸσ δὲ πειρατεύσει αὐτὸν κατὰ πόδασ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 49:19)
  • ὅτι ἐν σοὶ ῥυσθήσομαι ἀπὸ πειρατηρίου καὶ ἐν τῷ Θεῷ μου ὑπερβήσομαι τεῖχοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 17:30)
  • ἐπανακαινίζων ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ τὴν ἔτασίν μου. ὀργῇ δὲ μεγάλῃ μοι ἐχρήσω, ἐπήγαγεσ δὲ ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ πειρατήρια. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 10:17)
  • ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ ἦλθον τὰ πειρατήρια αὐτοῦ ἐπ̓ ἐμοί, ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ μου ἐκύκλωσαν ἐγκάθετοι. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 19:12)
  • νικῶν δ’ ἀπῆρα φόνια πειρατήρια. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 3:3)
  • ΠΟΤΕΡΟΝ οὐχὶ πειρατήριόν ἐστιν ὁ βίοσ ἀνθρώπου ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ καὶ ὥσπερ μισθίου αὐθημερινοῦ ἡ ζωὴ αὐτοῦ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iob 7:1)
  • κατὰ δὲ τὰσ ἀκρωρείασ τοῦ Ταύρου τὸ Ζηνικέτου πειρατήριόν ἐστιν ὁ Ὄλυμποσ ὄροσ τε καὶ φρούριον ὁμώνυμον, ἀφ’ οὗ κατοπτεύεται πᾶσα Λυκία καὶ Παμφυλία καὶ Πισιδία καὶ Μιλυάσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 5 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. a pirate's nest

Related

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

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