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περιστερεών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιστερεών περιστερεῶνος

Structure: περιστερεων (Stem)

Etym.: from peristera/

Sense

  1. a dovecote

Examples

  • καὶ καλοῦμέν γε παραδιδόντα μὲν διδάσκειν, παραλαμβάνοντα δὲ μανθάνειν, ἔχοντα δὲ δὴ τῷ κεκτῆσθαι ἐν τῷ περιστερεῶνι ἐκείνῳ ἐπίστασθαι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 339:9)

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

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