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ταλασιουργός?

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: talasiourgos

Principal Part: ταλασιουργός ταλασιουργοῦ

Structure: ταλασιουργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Ἔργω

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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