σιρομάστης

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Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /siː.ro.mǎːs.tɛːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /si.roˈmas.te̝s/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /si.roˈmas.tis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /si.roˈmas.tis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /si.roˈmas.tis/

Noun

σιρομάστης • (siromástēs)

pit-searcher, i.e. a probe or gauge, with which tax-gatherers searched corn-pits and magazines, used in war to try whether there were pits in the ground
barbed lance of the same shape
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Kings 18.28

References

“σιρομάστης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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