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τέρετρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέρετρον τέρετρου

Structure: τερετρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: tei/rw

Sense

  1. a borer, gimlet

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

  • ἄλλο δ’ ὄργανον μηδὲν προσφέρεσθαι, οὐ πολεμῶν δήπου τερέτροισ καὶ σκεπάρνοισ καὶ ὅσα λεπτουργεῖν πέφυκεν ἀλλ’ εἰδὼσ ὅτι διὰ τοιούτων ἔργων οὐκ εἰσοίσεισ κλινίδιον ἐπίχρυσον οὐδὲ τολμήσεισ εἰσ οἰκίαν λιτὴν ἀργυρᾶσ εἰσενεγκεῖν τραπέζασ καὶ δάπιδασ ἁλουργοὺσ καὶ λίθουσ πολυτελεῖσ· (Plutarch, De esu carnium II, section 2 8:1)

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

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