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σαμφόρης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σαμφόρης σαμφόρου

Structure: σαμφορ (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. a horse branded with the letter

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σαμφόρης σαμφόρᾱ σαμφόραι
Genitive σαμφόρου σαμφόραιν σαμφορῶν
Dative σαμφόρᾱͅ σαμφόραιν σαμφόραις
Accusative σαμφόρᾱν σαμφόρᾱ σαμφόρᾱς
Vocative σαμφόρᾱ σαμφόρᾱ σαμφόραι

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

  • οὐκ ἄρα μὰ τὴν Δήμητρα τῶν γ’ ἐμῶν ἔδει, οὔτ’ αὐτὸσ οὔθ’ ὁ ζύγιοσ οὔθ’ ὁ σαμφόρασ· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 4:27)
  • καὶ τοὺσ ἵππουσ τοὺσ τὸ ξ ἐγκεχαραγμένον ἔχοντασ σαμφόρασ καλοῦσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 30 4:2)
  • οὔτ’ αὐτὸσ οὔθ’ ὁ ζύγιοσ οὔθ’ ὁ σαμφόρασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 30 4:4)
  • τὸ δὲ δωρεὰν ἐπὶ σαμφορᾶσ λαμβάνεται καὶ ἐπὶ κακοῦ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 42)

Synonyms

  1. a horse branded with the letter

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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