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πόσθων?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: posthōn

Principal Part: πόσθων πόσθωνος

Structure: ποσθων (Stem)

Sense

  1. a little boy

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πόσθων πόσθωνε πόσθωνες
Genitive πόσθωνος ποσθώνοιν ποσθώνων
Dative πόσθωνι ποσθώνοιν πόσθωσι(ν)
Accusative πόσθωνα πόσθωνε πόσθωνας
Vocative πόσθων πόσθωνε πόσθωνες

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

  • "φὴς Δίωνα τὸν καταπύγονα καὶ λακκοσχέαν, τὸν μύρτωνα καὶ σχινοτρώκταν νεανίσκον, ἀναφλῶντα καὶ βλιμάζοντα, ἤν τινα πεώδη καὶ πόσθωνα αἴσθηται · (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 12:1)
  • εἰπέ μοι ὦ πόσθων, ἐς τὸν σαυτοῦ πατέρ ᾄδεις· (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode, elegiacs2)

Synonyms

  1. a little boy

Similar forms

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

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