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σφηνοπώγων?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: sphēnopōgōn

Principal Part: σφηνοπώγων σφηνοπώγωνος

Structure: σφηνοπωγων (Stem)

Sense

  1. with peaked beard

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

  • παῖδας δὲ αὐτῶν τοὺς ὡραίους καὶ κομήτας, οὓς Υἁκίνθους ἢ Ἀχιλλέας ἢ Ναρκίσσους ὀνομάζουσι, μεταξὺ ὀρέγοντας σφίσι τὸ ἔκπωμα φαλακροὺς γίνεσθαι ὑπορρεούσης τῆς κόμης καὶ πώγωνα φύειν ὀξύν, οἱοί῀ εἰσιν ἐν ταῖς κωμῳδίαις οἱ σφηνοπώγωνες, καὶ τὸ παρὰ τοῖς κροτάφοις πάνυ λάσιον καὶ κάρτα ἐκκεντοῦν, τὸ μεταξὺ δὲ λεῖον καὶ γυμνὸν εἶναι. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 1 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. with peaked beard

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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