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πυράγρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυράγρα

Structure: πυραγρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pair of fire-tongs

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

  • μετὰ δὲ τὴν τελευτὴν τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἀποδομένη τὰσ πυράγρασ καὶ τὸν ἄκμονα καὶ σφῦραν δύο μνῶν, ἀπὸ τούτων διετράφημεν· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:9)

Synonyms

  1. a pair of fire-tongs

Related

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

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