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πίστρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πίστρα

Structure: πιστρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: pipi/skw

Sense

  1. a drinking-trough

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

  • πέτρησ ἐκ δισσῆσ ψυχρὸν κατεπάλμενον ὕδωρ, χαίροισ, καὶ Νυμφέων ποιμενικὰ ξόανα, πίστραι ^ τε κρηνέων, καὶ ἐν ὕδασι κόσμια ταῦτα ὑμέων, ὦ κοῦραι, μυρία τεγγόμενα, χαίρετ’· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3261)

Synonyms

  1. a drinking-trough

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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