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τομεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τομεύς τομέως

Structure: τομευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: temei=n

Sense

  1. one that cuts, a shoemaker's knife, the edge of a knife

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τομεύς τομή τομής
Genitive τομέως τομέοιν τομέων
Dative τομεί τομέοιν τομεῦσιν*
Accusative τομέα τομή τομέᾱς
Vocative τομεύ τομή τομής

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

  • ἀπὸ δὲ Τομέωσ ἐσ Κάλλατιν πόλιν ἄλλοι τριακόσιοι· (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 24 5:1)
  • εἰ γὰρ δεῖ καὶ ἀπεικάσαι, οὕτω καὶ σίδηροσ μάλιστα διατέμνει σίδηρον, ὅταν τό τε ἡγούμενον τοῦ τομέωσ ἐρρωμένον ᾖ καὶ τὸ ἐπελαυνόμενον ἱκανόν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 4:2)

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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