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σφαιριστήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφαιριστήριον σφαιριστήριου

Structure: σφαιριστηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: sfairi/zw

Sense

  1. a ball-court

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σφαιριστήριον σφαιριστηρίω σφαιριστήρια
Genitive σφαιριστηρίου σφαιριστηρίοιν σφαιριστηρίων
Dative σφαιριστηρίῳ σφαιριστηρίοιν σφαιριστηρίοις
Accusative σφαιριστήριον σφαιριστηρίω σφαιριστήρια
Vocative σφαιριστήριον σφαιριστηρίω σφαιριστήρια

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

  • ἀμέλει δὲ καὶ πίθηκον θρέψαι δεινὸσ καὶ τίτυρον κτήσασθαι καὶ Σικελικὰσ περιστερὰσ καὶ δορκαδείουσ ἀστραγάλουσ καὶ Θουριακὰσ τῶν στρογγύλων ληκύθουσ καὶ βακτηρίασ τῶν σκολιῶν ἐκ Λακεδαίμονοσ καὶ αὐλαίαν ἔχουσαν Πέρσασ ἐνυφασμένουσ, καὶ αὐλίδιον παλαιστριαῖον κόνιν ἔχον καὶ σφαιριστήριον. (Theophrastus, Characters, 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. a ball-court

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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