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σιρός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σιρός σιροῦ

Structure: σιρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pit or vessel

Declension

Second 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

  • αὐλεῖν δ’ αὐτοῖσ Ἀντιγενείδαν, ἀργᾶν δ’ ᾄδειν καὶ κιθαρίζειν Κηφισόδοτον τὸν Ἀχαρνῆθεν μέλπειν δ’ ᾠδαῖσ τοτὲ μὲν Σπάρτην τὴν εὐρύχορον, τοτὲ δ’ αὖ Θήβασ τὰσ ἑπταπύλουσ, τὰσ ἁρμονίασ μεταβάλλοντασ, φερνάσ τε λαβεῖν δύο μὲν ξανθῶν ἵππων ἀγέλασ αἰγῶν τ’ ἀγέλην χρυσοῦν τε σάκοσ φιάλην τε λεπαστὴν χιόνοσ τε πρόχουν κέρχνων τε χύτραν βολβῶν τε σιρὸν δωδεκάπηχυν καὶ πουλυπόδων ἑκατόμβην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 7 1:3)
  • τούτων μὲν ἐπιθυμεῖν καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ταῦτα λαβεῖν καὶ πόνουσ καὶ χειμῶνασ καὶ τοὺσ ἐσχάτουσ κινδύνουσ ὑπομένειν, τῶν δ’ Ἀθηναίων λιμένων καὶ νεωρίων καὶ τριήρων καὶ τῶν ἔργων τῶν ἀργυρείων καὶ τοσούτων προσόδων οὐκ ἐπιθυμεῖν, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ὑμᾶσ ἐάσειν ἔχειν, ὑπὲρ δὲ τῶν μελινῶν καὶ τῶν ὀλυρῶν τῶν ἐν τοῖσ Θρᾳκίοισ σιροῖσ ἐν τῷ βαράθρῳ χειμάζειν. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 51:2)
  • τῶν δ’ Ἀθηναίων λιμένων καὶ νεωρίων καὶ τριήρων καὶ τόπου καὶ δόξησ, ὧν μήτ’ ἐκείνῳ μήτ’ ἄλλῳ γένοιτο μηδενὶ χειρωσαμένῳ τὴν πόλιν τὴν ἡμετέραν κυριεῦσαι, οὐκ ἐπιθυμεῖν, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ὑμᾶσ ἐάσειν ἔχειν, ὑπὲρ δὲ τῶν μελινῶν καὶ τῶν ὀλυρῶν τῶν ἐν τοῖσ Θρᾳκίοισ σιροῖσ ἐν τῷ βαράθρῳ χειμάζειν. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 19:1)
  • σιρόσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 131)
  • ταὐτὸ δὲ πάσχει καὶ πυρῶν ἐντεθεὶσ σιρῷ καὶ νίτρῳ συνημμένοσ, ὑπὸ θερμότητοσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 8:5)

Synonyms

  1. a pit or vessel

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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