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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

  • ἢ πάλιν αὖ μοι ἐρεῖτε ὅτι τῶν ἐπιστημῶν καὶ ἀνεπιστημοσυνῶν εἰσὶν αὖ ἐπιστῆμαι, ἃσ ὁ κεκτημένοσ ἐν ἑτέροισ τισὶ γελοίοισ περιστερεῶσιν ἢ κηρίνοισ πλάσμασι καθείρξασ, ἑώσπερ ἂν κεκτῆται ἐπίσταται, καὶ ἐὰν μὴ προχείρουσ ἔχῃ ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 352:5)

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

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