Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σοροπηγός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σοροπηγός σοροπηγοῦ

Structure: σοροπηγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ph/gnumi

Sense

  1. a coffin-maker

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

  • πότερον παρανοίασ αὐτὸν εἰσαγαγὼν ἕλω, ἢ τοῖσ σοροπηγοῖσ τὴν μανίαν αὐτοῦ φράσω; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics34)
  • πέντ’ ἰητρὸσ Ἄλεξισ ἅμ’ ἔκλυσε, πέντ’ ἐκάθηρε, πέντ’ ἴδεν ἀρρώστουσ, πέντ’ ἐνέχρισε πάλιν καὶ πᾶσιν μία νύξ, ἓν φάρμακον, εἷσ σοροπηγόσ, εἷσ τάφοσ, εἷσ Αἴδησ, εἷσ κοπετὸσ γέγονεν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 1221)
  • ὦ σοροπηγοί, Ἆγιν καὶ μίτραισ βάλλετε καὶ στεφάνοισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 1234)

Synonyms

  1. a coffin-maker

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

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