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πλινθουργός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλινθουργός πλινθουργοῦ

Structure: πλινθουργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: E)/rgw

Sense

  1. a brickmaker

Declension

Second 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

  • Πλινθουργοί, μάλα τοῦτον Πλινθουργοί οἶκον ἐγεῖραι, ἦμαρ δ’ ἀννέφελον τόδε σήμερον, οὐδ’ ἔτι πολλῶν χρηίζω, πᾶσαν δὲ τριηκοσίῃσι δέουσαν πλίνθον ἔχω. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 1361)
  • εἴ τισ ἡμᾶσ τῶν φαύλων τι καὶ προχείρων ἔροιτο, οἱο͂ν περὶ πηλοῦ ὅτι ποτ’ ἐστίν, εἰ ἀποκριναίμεθα αὐτῷ πηλὸσ ὁ τῶν χυτρέων καὶ πηλὸσ ὁ τῶν ἰπνοπλαθῶν καὶ πηλὸσ ὁ τῶν πλινθουργῶν, οὐκ ἂν γελοῖοι εἶμεν; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 33:2)

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

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