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τυρόκνηστις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τυρόκνηστις τυρόκνηστιος

Structure: τυροκνηστι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a cheese-scraper, cheese-grater

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τυρόκνηστις τυροκνήστιε τυροκνήστιες
Genitive τυροκνήστιος τυροκνηστίοιν τυροκνηστίων
Dative τυροκνήστῑ τυροκνηστίοιν τυροκνήστισιν*
Accusative τυρόκνηστιν τυροκνήστιε τυροκνήστιας
Vocative τυρόκνηστι τυροκνήστιε τυροκνήστιες

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

  • Λάβητι μάρτυρασ παρεῖναι τρύβλιον δοίδυκα τυρόκνηστιν ἐσχάραν χύτραν, καὶ τἄλλα, τὰ σκεύη τὰ προσκεκαυμένα. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 1:35)
  • ἀνάβηθι τυρόκνηστι καὶ λέξον μέγα· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 2:10)
  • ὁρμήσασ μὲν γὰρ Κατάνην λαβεῖν, εὐθὺσ ἀπέβαλε τὰσ Συρακούσασ ὅτε καί φασιν αὐτὸν εἰπεῖν ὅτι πόλιν ἀπολωλεκὼσ τυρόκνηστιν εἴληφεν. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 58 2:3)

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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