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πρυμνήτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρυμνήτης πρυμνήτου

Structure: πρυμνητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pru/mna

Sense

  1. the steersman, "the pilot"

Declension

First 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

  • μολόντα δ’ αὐτὸν κάρτα τιμαλφεῖ λεώσ, Δελφόσ τε χώρασ τῆσδε πρυμνήτησ ἄναξ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 1:8)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ χώρᾳ τῇδε καὶ τῷ σῷ στρατῷ τὸ λοιπὸν εἰσ ἅπαντα πλειστήρη χρόνον ὁρκωμοτήσασ νῦν ἄπειμι πρὸσ δόμουσ, μήτοι τιν’ ἄνδρα δεῦρο πρυμνήτην χθονὸσ ἐλθόντ’ ἐποίσειν εὖ κεκασμένον δόρυ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. the steersman

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

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