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ταλασιουργός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταλασιουργός ταλασιουργοῦ

Structure: ταλασιουργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: E)/rgw

Sense

  1. a wool-spinner

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

  • "ἡ δὲ τῶν ἱστουργούντων ᾠδὴ αἴλινοσ, ὡσ Ἐπίχαρμοσ ἐν Ἀταλάνταισ ἱστορεῖ, ἡ δὲ τῶν ταλασιουργῶν ἰούλοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 10 1:3)
  • ἀλλ’ οἱᾶ γυναικὶ πρέποντά ἐστιν εἰπεῖν ταλασιουργῷ περὶ ἐρίων ἐργασίασ; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 62:7)
  • χωρὶσ γὰρ τοῦ μηδ’ ὑφ’ ἑνὸσ τῶν ἔξωθεν ὁρᾶσθαι βίον ἔζησε γυναικόσ, καὶ διαιτώμενοσ μὲν μετὰ τῶν παλλακίδων, πορφύραν δὲ καὶ τὰ μαλακώτατα τῶν ἐρίων ταλασιουργῶν, στολὴν μὲν γυναικείαν ἐνεδεδύκει, τὸ δὲ πρόσωπον καὶ πᾶν τὸ σῶμα ψιμυθίοισ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ τοῖσ τῶν ἑταιρῶν ἐπιτηδεύμασιν ἁπαλώτερον πάσησ γυναικὸσ τρυφερᾶσ κατεσκεύαστο. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 23 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a wool-spinner

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

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