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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

  • καὶ οὗτοσ ὁ ἀριθμὸσ αὐτῶν. ψυκτῆρεσ χρυσοῖ τριάκοντα καὶ ψυκτῆρεσ ἀργυροῖ χίλιοι, παρηλλαγμένα ἐννέα καὶ εἴκοσι, (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae II 1:9)
  • "ὑδρίαι εἴκοσι καὶ ἕξ, ἀμφορεῖσ Παναθηναικοὶ δεκαέξ, ψυκτῆρεσ ἑκατὸν ἑξήκοντα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:135)
  • "καὶ ληνόσ, ἐν ᾗ ἦσαν βῖκοι δέκα, ὁλκεῖα δύο, ἑκάτερον χωροῦν μετρητὰσ πέντε, κώθωνεσ διμέτρητοι δύο, ψυκτῆρεσ εἴκοσι δύο, ὧν ὁ μέγιστοσ ἐχώρει μετρητὰσ τριάκοντα, ὁ δὲ ἐλάχιστοσ μετρητήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:139)
  • εἴ τε ῥᾴθυμόσ τισ ἐμπέπαικεν αὖθισ καὶ φιλοπότησ καὶ πλούσιοσ, αὐτὰρ ὁ γυμνώθη ῥακέων πολύμητισ Ὀδυσσεύσ , ἔρριπται μὲν ὁ τρίβων, κατακείρεται δ’ ὁ πώγων ὥσπερ ἄκαρπον θέροσ, ψυκτῆρεσ δὲ καὶ φιάλαι καὶ γέλωτεσ ἐν περιπάτοισ καὶ σκώμματα πρὸσ τοὺσ φιλοσοφοῦντασ, ὥσπερ ἐν Συρακούσαισ φασίν, ὁπηνίκα Πλάτων ἀφίκετο, καὶ Διονύσιον ζῆλοσ ἔσχε περιμανὴσ φιλοσοφίασ, τὰ βασίλεια κονιορτοῦ γέμειν ὑπὸ πλήθουσ τῶν γεωμετρούντων· (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 7 7:1)

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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