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τρύπανον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρύπανον τρύπανου

Structure: τρυπαν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a borer, auger

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

  • ὥσπερ, οἶμαι, καὶ τὸ σκέπαρνον τῷ τέκτονι καὶ τὸ τρύπανον συνεργεῖ μέν τι πρὸσ τὴν τέχνην, οὐδεὶσ δ’ ἂν εἴποι ὡσ ταῦτα ὁ τεχνίτησ ἐστίν, οὐδ’ ἡ ναῦσ ἔργον τοῦ σκεπάρνου ἢ τοῦ τρυπάνου, ἀλλὰ τοῦ ναυπηγοῦ· (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 11:6)
  • οὐκοῦν καὶ περὶ τρυπάνου ἕξεισ οὕτωσ εἰπεῖν καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 30:4)

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

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