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σιτώνης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σιτώνης σιτώνου

Structure: σιτων (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: w)ne/omai

Sense

  1. a buyer of corn, a commissary for buying it

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σιτώνης σιτώνᾱ σιτῶναι
Genitive σιτώνου σιτώναιν σιτωνῶν
Dative σιτώνῃ σιτώναιν σιτώναις
Accusative σιτώνην σιτώνᾱ σιτώνᾱς
Vocative σιτῶνα σιτώνᾱ σιτῶναι

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

  • σιτώνησ δὲ γενόμενοσ καὶ κατηγορηθεὶσ κλοπῆσ ἀφείθη. (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 1 30:2)
  • ἔπειθ’ αἱρούμενοσ σιτώνην ἐκ πάντων ἔμ’ ἐχειροτόνησεν ὁ δῆμοσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 356:4)

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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