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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

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

  • ταφὼν δ’ ἀνόρουσε συβώτησ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 321)
  • "τοῖσιν δ’ αὖ πίνακασ κρειῶν παρέθηκε συβώτησ, Ἀριστοφάνησ ὁ Βυζάντιοσ νεώτερόν φησιν εἶναι τὸ ἐπὶ πινάκων παρατιθέναι τὰ ὄψα, ἀγνοῶν ὅτι κἀν ἄλλοισ εἴρηκεν ὁ ποιητήσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 133)
  • "κύπελλα ἐκπώματα σκύφοισ ὅμοια, ὡσ καὶ Νίκανδροσ ὁ Κολοφώνιοσ κύπελλα δ’ ἔνειμε συβώτησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 65 1:6)
  • ὁ δ’ ὠμοθετεῖτο συβώτησ, πάντοθεν ἀρχόμενοσ μελέων ἐσ πίονα δημόν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 72 29:2)
  • ἥν ῥα συβώτησ αὐτὸσ δείμαθ’ ὑέσσιν ἀποιχομένοιο ἄνακτοσ, νόσφιν δεσποίνησ καὶ Λαέρταο γέροντοσ, ῥυτοῖσιν λάεσσι καὶ ἐθρίγκωσεν ἀχέρδῳ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a swineherd

Related

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

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