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σορός

Second declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σορός σοροῦ

Structure: σορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a vessel for holding anything
  2. as nickname of an old man or 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

  • "ὅταν ἐγγύσ ᾖ τῳ δ’ ἡ σορόσ, ἀρτύω φακῆν καὶ τὸ περίδειπνον τοῦ βίου λαμπρόν ποιῶ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 68 1:23)
  • ἐπεὶ προέβη τοῖσ ἔτεσιν ἡ Γνάθαινα καὶ ἤδη τελέωσ ἦν ὁμολογουμένη σορόσ, εἰσ τὴν ἀγορὰν λέγουσιν αὐτὴν ἐξίναι καὶ τοὔψον ἐφορᾶν καὶ πολυπραγμονεῖν πόσου πωλεῖθ’ ἕκαστον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 43 5:2)
  • ὁ ψόφοσ ἦν κλυστῆροσ ἐν οὐάσι, καὶ στεφανοῦτο ἡ σορόσ, οἱ δ’ ἄλλοι τὸν φακὸν ηὐτρέπισαν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 1193)
  • γινώσκειν σε θέλω, Πλακιανέ, σαφῶσ, ὅτι πᾶσα ἔγχαλκοσ γραῖα πλουσία ἐστὶ σορόσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 4251)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ βιότου πιστὸν ἐφημερίοισ, εἰ καὶ τόνδε Κάσανδρον ἔχει σορὸσ ἥδε θανόντα, ἄνθρωπον φύσεωσ ἄξιον ἀθανάτου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3272)
  • καὶ ἔτεκε Μοωχὰ γυνὴ Μαχὶρ υἱὸν καὶ ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Φαρέσ, καὶ ὄνομα ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ Σόροσ. υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ Οὐλὰμ καὶ Ροκόμ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 7:16)

Synonyms

  1. a vessel for holding anything

  2. as nickname of an old man or woman

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