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ταριχευτής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταριχευτής ταριχευτοῦ

Structure: ταριχευτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from tari_xeu/w

Sense

  1. an embalmer

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ταριχευτής ταριχευτᾱ́ ταριχευταί
Genitive ταριχευτοῦ ταριχευταῖν ταριχευτῶν
Dative ταριχευτῇ ταριχευταῖν ταριχευταῖς
Accusative ταριχευτήν ταριχευτᾱ́ ταριχευτᾱ́ς
Vocative ταριχευτά ταριχευτᾱ́ ταριχευταί

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

  • οἱ ταριχευταὶ δὲ καλούμενοι πάσησ μὲν τιμῆσ καὶ πολυωρίασ ἀξιοῦνται, τοῖσ τε ἱερεῦσι συνόντεσ καὶ τὰσ εἰσ ἱερὸν εἰσόδουσ ἀκωλύτωσ ὡσ καθαροὶ ποιοῦνται· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 91 5:1)
  • τοῦτο δὲ ποιεῦσι οὕτω τοῦδε εἵνεκεν, ἵνα μή σφι οἱ ταριχευταὶ μίσγωνται τῇσι γυναιξί· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 89 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. an embalmer

Similar forms

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

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