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πνιγεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πνιγεύς πνιγέως

Structure: πνιγευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pni/gw

Sense

  1. cover for a stove

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐνταῦθ’ ἐνοικοῦσ’ ἄνδρεσ, οἳ τὸν οὐρανὸν λέγοντεσ ἀναπείθουσιν ὡσ ἔστιν πνιγεύσ, κἄστιν περὶ ἡμᾶσ οὗτοσ, ἡμεῖσ δ’ ἄνθρακεσ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 4:9)
  • αὐτίκα γὰρ ἀήρ ἐστι τὴν ἰδέαν ὅλοσ κατὰ πνιγέα μάλιστα. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:17)
  • ψυχῶν σοφῶν τοῦτ’ ἐστὶ φροντιστήριον ἐνταῦθ’ ἐνοικοῦσ’ ἄνδρεσ οἳ τὸν οὐρανὸν λέγοντεσ ἀναπείθουσιν ὡσ ἔστιν πνιγεὺσ κἄστιν περὶ ἡμᾶσ οὗτοσ, ἡμεῖσ δ’ ἄνθρακεσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section4)
  • ἔπειτα Φοινικοῦσ λιμὴν καὶ Πνιγεὺσ κώμη· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 27:8)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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