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πορνοβοσκός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πορνοβοσκός πορνοβοσκοῦ

Structure: πορνοβοσκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a brothel-keeper

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

  • ἐλέγοντο δὲ εἶναι μοιχοὶ καὶ πορνοβοσκοὶ καὶ τελῶναι καὶ κόλακεσ καὶ συκοφάνται καὶ τοιοῦτοσ ὅμιλοσ τῶν πάντα κυκώντων ἐν τῷ βίῳ. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 11:3)
  • οἳ δ’ αὖ κατὰ τὴν λῆψιν ὑπερβάλλουσι τῷ πάντοθεν λαμβάνειν καὶ πᾶν, οἱο͂ν οἱ τὰσ ἀνελευθέρουσ ἐργασίασ ἐργαζόμενοι, πορνοβοσκοὶ καὶ πάντεσ οἱ τοιοῦτοι, καὶ τοκισταὶ κατὰ μικρὰ καὶ ἐπὶ πολλῷ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 36:2)

Synonyms

  1. a brothel-keeper

Related

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

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