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πυροπώλης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυροπώλης πυροπώλου

Structure: πυροπωλ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pwle/w

Sense

  1. a wheat-merchant.

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πυροπώλης πυροπώλᾱ πυροπῶλαι
Genitive πυροπώλου πυροπώλαιν πυροπωλῶν
Dative πυροπώλῃ πυροπώλαιν πυροπώλαις
Accusative πυροπώλην πυροπώλᾱ πυροπώλᾱς
Vocative πυροπῶλα πυροπώλᾱ πυροπῶλαι

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

  • εἰ δὲ Φιλοκράτησ μὴ μόνον ὡμολόγει παρ’ ὑμῖν ἐν τῷ δήμῳ πολλάκισ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐδείκνυεν ὑμῖν, πυροπωλῶν, οἰκοδομῶν, βαδιεῖσθαι φάσκων κἂν μὴ χειροτονῆθ’ ὑμεῖσ, ξυληγῶν, τὸ χρυσίον καταλλαττόμενοσ φανερῶσ ἐπὶ ταῖσ τραπέζαισ, οὐκ ἔνι δήπου τοῦτον εἰπεῖν ὡσ οὐκ εἴληφε, τὸν αὐτὸν ὁμολογοῦντα καὶ δεικνύντα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 148:2)

Synonyms

  1. a wheat-merchant

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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