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πιτυοκάμπτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πιτυοκάμπτης πιτυοκάμπτου

Structure: πιτυοκαμπτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. pine-bender

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

  • εἰ γοῦν μὴ ὁ Θησεὺσ ἐκ Τροιζῆνοσ εἰσ Ἀθήνασ ἰὼν ὁδοῦ πάρεργον ἐξέκοψε τοὺσ κακούργουσ, ὅσον ἐπὶ σοὶ καὶ τῇ σῇ προνοίᾳ οὐδὲν ἂν ἐκώλυεν ζῆν ἐντρυφῶντασ ταῖσ τῶν ὁδῷ βαδιζόντων σφαγαῖσ τὸν Σκείρωνα καὶ Πιτυοκάμπτην καὶ Κερκυόνα καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ· (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 21:2)
  • ἄρτι δὲ τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ συντετελεσμένου ἠγγέλλοντο οἱ ἐν τῷ χώρῳ τῶν ἀσεβῶν κολαζόμενοι ἀπορρήξαντεσ τὰ δεσμὰ καὶ τῆσ φρουρᾶσ ἐπικρατήσαντεσ ἐλαύνειν ἐπὶ τὴν νῆσον ἡγεῖσθαι δὲ αὐτῶν Φάλαρίν τε τὸν Ἀκραγαντῖνον καὶ Βούσιριν τὸν Αἰγύπτιον καὶ Διομήδη τὸν Θρᾷκα καὶ τοὺσ περὶ Σκίρωνα καὶ Πιτυοκάμπτην. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 23:1)
  • ἐν δ’ Ἰσθμῷ Σίνιν τὸν πιτυοκάμπτην ᾧ τρόπῳ πολλοὺσ ἀνῄρει, τούτῳ διέφθειρεν αὐτόσ, οὐ μεμελετηκὼσ οὐδ’ εἰθισμένοσ, ἐπιδείξασ δὲ τὴν ἀρετὴν ὅτι καί τέχνησ περίεστι καὶ μελέτησ ἁπάσησ. (Plutarch, chapter 8 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. pine-bender

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

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