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σιτοποιός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σιτοποιός σιτοποιοῦ

Structure: σιτοποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of grinding and baking
  2. one that ground the corn in the handmill, a baking-woman

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

  • ἔπειτ’ ἴσωσ ἂν δεσποτῶν ὠμῶν φρένασ τύχοιμ’ ἄν, ὅστισ ἀργύρου μ’ ὠνήσεται, τὴν Ἕκτορόσ τε χἁτέρων πολλῶν κάσιν, προσθεὶσ δ’ ἀνάγκην σιτοποιὸν ἐν δόμοισ, σαίρειν τε δῶμα κερκίσιν τ’ ἐφεστάναι λυπρὰν ἄγουσαν ἡμέραν μ’ ἀναγκάσει· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 3:13)
  • καὶ τὴν σιτοποιὸν πειρῶν λαθεῖν, κᾆτ’ ἀλέσαι μετ’ αὐτῆσ τοῖσ ἔνδον πᾶσι καὶ αὑτῷ τὰ ἐπιτήδεια. (Theophrastus, Characters, 7:2)
  • καὶ ἐγὼ μέντοι, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, ἔφη, συνεβούλευον αὐτῇ μὴ δουλικῶσ ἀεὶ καθῆσθαι, ἀλλὰ σὺν τοῖσ θεοῖσ πειρᾶσθαι δεσποτικῶσ πρὸσ μὲν τὸν ἱστὸν προσστᾶσαν ὅ τι μὲν βέλτιον ἄλλου ἐπίσταιτο ἐπιδιδάξαι, ὅ τι δὲ χεῖρον ἐπιμαθεῖν, ἐπισκέψασθαι δὲ καὶ σιτοποιόν, παραστῆναι δὲ καὶ ἀπομετρούσῃ τῇ ταμίᾳ, περιελθεῖν δ’ ἐπισκοπουμένην καὶ εἰ κατὰ χώραν ἔχει ᾗ δεῖ ἕκαστα. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 10 11:1)
  • τούτων, σιτοποιὸν ἢ ὀψοποιὸν ἢ ὑφάντην ἢ σκυτοτόμον ἢ σκυτοδεψόν, οὐδὲν θαυμαστόν ἐστιν ὄντα τοιοῦτον δόξαι καὶ αὑτῷ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ θεραπευτὴν εἶναι σώματοσ, παντὶ τῷ μὴ εἰδότι ὅτι ἔστιν τισ παρὰ ταύτασ ἁπάσασ τέχνη γυμναστική τε καὶ ἰατρική, ἣ δὴ τῷ ὄντι γε ἐστὶν σώματοσ θεραπεία, ἥνπερ καὶ προσήκει τούτων ἄρχειν πασῶν τῶν τεχνῶν καὶ χρῆσθαι τοῖσ τούτων ἔργοισ διὰ τὸ εἰδέναι ὅτι χρηστὸν καὶ πονηρὸν τῶν σιτίων ἢ ποτῶν ἐστιν εἰσ ἀρετὴν σώματοσ, τὰσ δ’ ἄλλασ πάσασ ταύτασ ἀγνοεῖν· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 431:1)
  • τὴν δὲ μίαν ἕκαστοσ σιτοποιὸν ἐξαιρέετο· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 150 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. of grinding and baking

Related

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

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