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σιτομέτρης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σιτομέτρης σιτομέτρου

Structure: σιτομετρ (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: metre/w

Sense

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

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σιτομέτρης σιτομέτρᾱ σιτομέτραι
Genitive σιτομέτρου σιτομέτραιν σιτομετρῶν
Dative σιτομέτρᾱͅ σιτομέτραιν σιτομέτραις
Accusative σιτομέτρᾱν σιτομέτρᾱ σιτομέτρᾱς
Vocative σιτομέτρᾱ σιτομέτρᾱ σιτομέτραι

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

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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