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συβώτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συβώτης συβώτου

Structure: συβωτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: su=s, bo/skw

Sense

  1. a swineherd

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative συβώτης συβώτᾱ συβῶται
Genitive συβώτου συβώταιν συβωτῶν
Dative συβώτῃ συβώταιν συβώταις
Accusative συβώτην συβώτᾱ συβώτᾱς
Vocative συβῶτα συβώτᾱ συβῶται

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 κισσυβίῳ τῶν μὲν ἐν ἄστει καὶ μετρίων οὐδεὶσ ἐχρῆτο, συβῶται δὲ καὶ νομεῖσ καὶ οἱ ἐν ἀγρῷ Πολύφημοσ μὲν τῷ κισσυβίῳ, θατέρῳ δὲ Εὔμαιοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 53 2:5)
  • Ἀσκληπιάδησ δ’ ὁ Μυρλεανὸσ ἐν τῷ περὶ τῆσ Νεστορίδοσ φησὶν ὅτι τῷ σκύφει καὶ τῷ κισσυβίῳ τῶν μὲν ἐν ἄστει καὶ μετρίων οὐδεὶσ ἐχρῆτο, συβῶται δὲ καὶ νομεῖσ καὶ οἱ ἐν ἀγρῷ, ὡσ ὁ Εὔμαιοσ πλησάμενοσ δῶκε σκύφοσ ᾧπερ ἔπινεν, οἴνου ἐνίπλειον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 99 5:5)
  • τοῦτο δὲ οἱ συβῶται ἐόντεσ Αἰγύπτιοι ἐγγενέεσ ἐσ ἱρὸν οὐδὲν τῶν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἐσέρχονται μοῦνοι πάντων, οὐδέ σφι ἐκδίδοσθαι οὐδεὶσ θυγατέρα ἐθέλει οὐδ’ ἄγεσθαι ἐξ αὐτῶν, ἀλλ’ ἐκδίδονταί τε οἱ συβῶται καὶ ἄγονται ἐξ ἀλλήλων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 47 2:2)
  • ἔστι δὲ Αἰγυπτίων ἑπτὰ γένεα, καὶ τούτων οἳ μὲν ἱρέεσ οἳ δὲ μάχιμοι κεκλέαται, οἳ δὲ βουκόλοι οἳ δὲ συβῶται, οἳ δὲ κάπηλοι, οἳ δὲ ἑρμηνέεσ, οἳ δὲ κυβερνήται. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 164 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a swineherd

Related

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

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