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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

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 τομὴ αὐτοῦ πρὸ ὥρασ φθαρήσεται, καὶ ὁ ράδαμνοσ αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ πυκάσῃ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 15:32)
  • οἰᾶ δὲ κυδιάεισ ἀνεμώλιοσ, Ἀτρυτώνη, ἣν γάμοσ οὐκ ἔσπειρε καὶ οὐ μαιώσατο μήτηρ, ἀλλὰ σιδηρείη σε τομὴ καὶ ῥίζα σιδήρου πατρῴων ἀλόχευτον ἀνεβλάστησε καρήνων. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 199)
  • ὁκοῖον γὰρ ἡ τομὴ τοῦ σιδήρου, ταὐτὸ τοῦτο καὶ ὁ πᾶσ σίδηροσ ἐργάζεται. (Arrian, chapter 12 3:1)
  • ἡ μέν γε τομὴ αὐτῷ κατὰ τὸ στόμωμα γίγνεται, τὸ δὲ ὑπόλοιπον, καὶ εἰ μαλθακὸν τύχοι ὄν, τῷ βάρει ὅμωσ συνεπερείδει τῷ τέμνοντι· (Arrian, chapter 12 3:2)
  • ἐπ’ ἄπειρον γὰρ ἡ τομὴ προάγει τὰ σώματα· (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 38 7:1)

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

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