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πυρεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρεύς πυρέως

Structure: πυρευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pu=r

Sense

  1. a fire-proof vessel

Declension

Third 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

  • αὐτόξυλόν γ’ ἔκπωμα, φλαυρουργοῦ τινοσ τεχνήματ’ ἀνδρόσ, καὶ πυρεῖ’ ὁμοῦ τάδε. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 2:12)

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

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