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συφορβός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συφορβός συφορβοῦ

Structure: συφορβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: su=s, fe/rbw

Sense

  1. a swineherd

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

  • τὰ δὲ βρέφη Φαιστύλοσ Ἀμουλίου συφορβὸσ ἀνείλετο λαθὼν ἅπαντασ, ὡσ δ’ ἔνιοί φασι τῶν εἰκότων ἐχόμενοι μᾶλλον, εἰδότοσ τοῦ Νομήτοροσ καὶ συγχορηγοῦντοσ τροφὰσ κρύφα τοῖσ τρέφουσι. (Plutarch, chapter 6 1:1)
  • ὣσ φάτο, βῆ δὲ συφορβόσ, ἐπεὶ τὸν μῦθον ἄκουσεν, ἀγχοῦ δ’ ἱστάμενοσ ἔπεα πτερόεντ’ ἀγόρευε· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 17 48:1)
  • ὣσ φάτο, βῆ δὲ συφορβόσ, ἐπεὶ τὸν μῦθον ἄκουσεν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 17 79:1)
  • ὣσ φάτο, βῆ δὲ συφορβόσ, ἐπεὶ τὸν μῦθον ἄκουσε. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 17 83:1)
  • τὼ δ’ ἐξ οἴκου βῆσαν ὁμαρτήσαντεσ ἅμ’ ἄμφω βουκόλοσ ἠδὲ συφορβὸσ Ὀδυσσῆοσ θείοιο· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 21 21:3)

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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