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τριχόβρως

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριχόβρως τριχόβρωτος

Structure: τριχοβρωτ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. eating hair, moths

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἢ τριχόβρωτεσ τοὺσ λόφουσ που κατέφαγον. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:19)
  • ἄγρια γὰρ ἡμᾶσ, ὦ γυναῖκεσ, δρᾷ κακά, ἅτ’ ἐν ἀγρίοισι τοῖσ λαχάνοισ αὐτὸσ τραφείσ καὶ ἀλλ’ ἦ τριχόβρωτεσ τὸν λόφον μου κατέφαγον καὶ φέρε δεῦρο γοργόνωτον ἀσπίδοσ κύκλον. (Plutarch, Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium, section 1 7:1)

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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