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χειρουργός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειρουργός χειρουργόν

Structure: χειρουργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)/rgw

Sense

  1. doing by hand
  2. a chirurgeon, surgeon

Examples

  • καὶ τῶν πονηρῶν οὔτε μέγασ οὐδεὶσ οὕτωσ οὔτε μικρὸσ γέγονεν, ὥστ’ ἢ λαθὼν διαφυγεῖν ἢ βιασάμενοσ ἄλλῃ δ’ ἄλλη τιμωρία τριῶν οὐσῶν φύλακι καὶ χειρουργῷ προσήκει· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 26:1)

Synonyms

  1. doing by hand

Related

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

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