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σιτομέτρης?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: sitometrēs

Principal Part: σιτομέτρης σιτομέτρου

Structure: σιτομετρ (Stem) + ας (Ending)

Etym.: μετρέω

Sense

  1. one who measures out corn: a magistrate who had to inspect the corn measures

Declension

First 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

  • ἔνθα δὲ κατὰ θέρειαν ἤρχετο τὰ μὲν σιτομετρῶν καὶ μισθοφορίαν παρεχόμενος τὰ δὲ καὶ ταῖς ἐξοπλισίαις πρὸς φόβον τῶν ἔξωθεν ἐπιμελῶς γυμνάζων. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 93:1)

Synonyms

  1. one who measures out corn

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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