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σκαπτήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκαπτήρ σκαπτῆρος

Structure: σκαπτηρ (Stem)

Sense

  1. a digger, delver

Declension

Third 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

  • εἶναι δέ τινασ σοφοὺσ οἰόμεθα ὅλωσ οὐ κατὰ μέροσ οὐδ’ ἄλλο τι σοφούσ, ὥσπερ Ὅμηρόσ φησιν ἐν τῷ Μαργίτῃ τὸν δ’ οὔτ’ ἂρ σκαπτῆρα θεοὶ θέσαν οὔτ’ ἀροτῆραοὔτ’ ἄλλωσ τι σοφόν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 46:1)
  • εἰ γάρ τοι δέοι μὴ ὀνομάζοντασ τὸ πρᾶγμα, ὅ ψέγουσι, τὰ καθ’ ἡμέραν συμβαίνοντα δι’ αὐτὸ βλασφημεῖν προφέροντασ, πολὺ πλείω ἂν ἔχοιεν καὶ τῷ ὄντι αἰσχρὰ διὰ πλοῦτον γιγνόμενα, οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ τὸ παρὰ τῷ Ἡσιόδῳ κεκριμένον ἐπονείδιστον προφέρειν, τὸ τῆσ ἀργίασ, λέγοντεσ, ὅτι σε, ὦ ἄνθρωπε, οὔτε σκαπτῆρα θεοὶ θέσαν οὔτ’ ἀροτῆρα, καὶ ὅτι ἄλλωσ τὰσ χεῖρασ ἔχεισ κατὰ τοὺσ μνηστῆρασ ἀτρίπτουσ καὶ ἁπαλάσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 140:1)

Synonyms

  1. a digger

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

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