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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

  • ἦ ῥα καὶ ὦρσε συφορβόν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 16 17:1)
  • νῦν δέ με λευγαλέῳ θανάτῳ εἵμαρτο ἁλῶναι ἐρχθέντ’ ἐν μεγάλῳ ποταμῷ ὡσ παῖδα συφορβόν, ὅν ῥά τ’ ἔναυλοσ ἀποέρσῃ χειμῶνι περῶντα. (Homer, Iliad, Book 21 21:8)

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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