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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

  • ἐνθένδε ἐσ Τομέα πόλιν στάδιοι τριακόσιοι. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 24 4:1)
  • ἀπὸ δὲ Τομέωσ ἐσ Κάλλατιν πόλιν ἄλλοι τριακόσιοι· (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 24 5:1)
  • ἡ γὰρ ἔκπτωσισ οὐ φέρει συριγμὸν οὐδὲ χλευασμὸν οὐδὲ κλωγμόν, ἀλλὰ πολλοῖσ μὲν ἐπέβη δεινὸσ κολαστὴσ πέλεκυσ αὐχένοσ τομεύσ, ὡσ τοῖσ περὶ Παρδάλαν· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 17 9:1)
  • 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)
  • Τομεὺσ δὲ κύκλου ἐστίν, ὅταν πρὸσ τῷ κέντρῳ τοῦ κύκλου συσταθῇ γωνία, τὸ περιεχόμενον σχῆμα ὑπό τε τῶν τὴν γωνίαν περιεχουσῶν εὐθειῶν καὶ τῆσ ἀπολαμβανομένησ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν περιφερείασ. (Euclid, Elements, book 3, type Def10)

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

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