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πόσθων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

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 πόσθωσιν*
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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