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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

  • ἀλλὰ δὴ τοῖσ μὲν ἄλλοισ σχεδὸν οὐκ ἀεὶ βέλτιον, ὅ φησι βούλεσθαι αὐτοὺσ Ἡσίοδοσ, μόνοισ δὲ τοῖσ κεραμεῦσι καὶ μαγείροισ τε καὶ βαφεῦσι καὶ πορνοβοσκοῖσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, speech 60 25:1)
  • οὐκοῦν ἡ ζηλοτυπία καὶ ὁ φθόνοσ καὶ τὸ μηδένα ἄλλον ἐθέλειν πράττειν τὸ αὐτὸ ἔργον μαγειρικόν τε καὶ βαφικὸν καὶ κεραμευτικὸν καὶ μᾶλλον πορνοβοσκοῖσ προσῆκον ἤπερ ἰατροῖσ τε καὶ κυβερνήταισ ἢ ἄλλο τι σπουδαιότερον πράττουσιν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, speech 60 25:2)

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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