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πιννοτήρης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πιννοτήρης πιννοτήρου

Structure: πιννοτηρ (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: thre/w

Sense

  1. the pinna-guard, a small crab, hermit-crab, a little parasitical fellow

Declension

First 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

  • "καὶ ὁ πιννοτήρησ συνεργὰ ἀλλήλοισ, κατ’ ἰδίαν οὐ δυνάμενα συμμένειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 38 1:3)
  • "ἡ μὲν οὖν πίννη ὄστρεόν ἐστιν, ὁ δὲ πιννοτήρησ καρκίνοσ μικρόσ, καὶ ἡ πίννη διαστήσασα τὸ ὄστρακον ἡσυχάζει τηροῦσα τὰ ἐπεισιόντα ἰχθύδια, ὁ δὲ πιννοτήρησ παρεστὼσ ὅταν εἰσέλθῃ τι δάκνει αὐτὴν ὥσπερ σημαίνων, ἡ δὲ δηχθεῖσα συμμύει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 38 1:4)

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

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