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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

  • καὶ ἐτελεύτησεν Ἰωσὴφ ἐτῶν ἑκατὸν δέκα. καὶ ἔθαψαν αὐτὸν καὶ ἔθηκαν ἐν τῇ σορῷ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 50:26)
  • υἱοὶ Ἀσήρ. Ἰεμνὰ καὶ Σουί̈α. καὶ Ἰσουί̈ καὶ Βεριὰ καὶ Σορὲ ἀδελφὴ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 7:30)
  • "πλὴν ἀλλά γε διὰ τὴν πενίαν ὑφιστάμην τὸν ἆθλον καὶ τὰ ψυχρὰ ἐκεῖνα τὰ ἐκ τῆσ σοροῦ φιλήματα ὑπερήδιστά μοι ἐποίει ὁ λιμόσ. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:84)
  • ὁ δ’ ὑπὸ γήρωσ μασταρύζει, κᾆτ’ ὀφλὼν ἀπέρχεται, εἶτα λύζει καὶ δακρύει καὶ λέγει πρὸσ τοὺσ φίλουσ, οὗ μ’ ἐχρῆν σορὸν πρίασθαι τοῦτ’ ὀφλὼν ἀπέρχομαι. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parabasis, epirrhema6)
  • ἐν τῇ σορῷ νυνὶ λαχὸν τὸ γράμμα σου δικάζειν, σὺ δ’ οὐ βαδίζεισ, ὁ δὲ Χάρων τὸ ξύμβολον δίδωσιν. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Parodos18)
  • 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)
  • "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)

Synonyms

  1. a vessel for holding anything

  2. as nickname of an old man or woman

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