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προβατοκάπηλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προβατοκάπηλος προβατοκάπηλον

Structure: προβατοκαπηλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a retailer of sheep

Examples

  • Αἰσχίνησ δέ φησι καὶ Λυσικλέα τὸν προβατοκάπηλον ἐξ ἀγεννοῦσ καὶ ταπεινοῦ τὴν φύσιν Ἀθηναίων γενέσθαι πρῶτον, Ἀσπασίᾳ συνόντα μετὰ τὴν Περικλέουσ τελευτήν. (Plutarch, , chapter 24 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a retailer of sheep

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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