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ψυκτήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψυκτήρ ψυκτῆρος

Structure: ψυκτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: yu/xw

Sense

  1. a wine-cooler

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

  • εὐτρέπιζε δὴ ψυκτῆρα, λεκάνην, τριπόδιον, ποτήριον, χύτραν, θυίαν, κάκκαβον, ζωμήρυσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 86 1:6)
  • οἱ δ’ ἄλλοι τὸν ὀκτακότυλον ψυκτῆρα πίνουσι, προφάσεωσ λαβόμενοι ἐπείπερ αὐτοὺσ προείλκυσεν Ἀλκιβιάδησ, οὐχ ὥσπερ οἱ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 8 2:7)
  • μνημονεύει δ’ αὐτῶν καὶ Ἐπιγένησ ἐν Ἡρωίνῃ διὰ τούτων ψυκτῆρα,1 κύαθον, κυμβία, ῥυτὰ τέτταρα, ἡδυποτίδασ τρεῖσ, ἡθμὸν ἀργυροῦν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 37 1:1)
  • καὶ κόνδυ καὶ ψυκτῆρα καὶ τι κυμβίον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 5514)
  • "ἀλλὰ φέρε, παῖ, φάναι, τὸν ψυκτῆρα ἐκεῖνον, ἰδόντα αὐτὸν πλέον ἢ ὀκτὼ κοτύλασ χωροῦντα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 108 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. a wine-cooler

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

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