σιρομάστης

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /siː.ro.mǎːs.tɛːs/ → /si.roˈmas.tis/ → /si.roˈmas.tis/

• (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)

1. 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
2. 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