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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

  • ἔστι δὴ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ μὲν ὁ παρὰ τῷ συβώτῃ καταγόμενοσ Ὀδυσσεὺσ περὶ τὴν ἑωθινὴν ὡρ́αν ἀκρατίζεσθαι μέλλων, ὡσ τοῖσ παλαιοῖσ ἔθοσ ἦν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 310)
  • οὐδὲ συβώτῃ ἥνδανεν αὐτόθι κοῖτοσ, ὑῶν ἄπο κοιμηθῆναι, ἀλλ’ ὅ γ’ ἄρ’ ἔξω ἰὼν ὡπλίζετο· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 48:2)
  • "ὦ πάτερ, ἤδη τοι σάκοσ οἴσω καὶ δύο δοῦρε καὶ κυνέην πάγχαλκον, ἐπὶ κροτάφοισ ἀραρυῖαν αὐτόσ τ’ ἀμφιβαλεῦμαι ἰών, δώσω δὲ συβώτῃ καὶ τῷ βουκόλῳ ἄλλα· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 15:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἔφαντο ἐσ Πύλον οἴχεσθαι Νηλήιον, ἀλλά που αὐτοῦ ἀγρῶν ἢ μήλοισι παρέμμεναι ἠὲ συβώτη. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 70:2)

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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