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|Full diacritics=λᾱτομέω
|Medium diacritics=λατομέω
|Low diacritics=λατομέω
|Capitals=ΛΑΤΟΜΕΩ
|Transliteration A=latoméō
|Transliteration B=latomeō
|Transliteration C=latomeo
|Beta Code=latome/w
|Definition=<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">quarry</b>, γῆν <span class="bibl">Posidon.57</span> J.; πέτραν <span class="title">IG</span>42(1).122.25 (Epid.), cf. <span class="bibl">D.S. 5.39</span>; λίθους <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>499.38</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl">Antig.<span class="title">Mir.</span>161</span>: abs., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>296.34</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl">Agatharch.25</span>, <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>8.2.9</span>:—Pass., λελατόμηται <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>2p.12</span> (iii B.C.); τὰ -ούμενα θραύματα <span class="bibl">D.S.3.12</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">λ. λάκκον</b> <b class="b2">hew</b> it <b class="b2">out</b>, <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Ex.</span>21.33</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">De.</span>6.11</span> (Pass.).</span>
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|lstext='''λᾱτομέω''': [[κόπτω]], [[ἐξάγω]] λίθους, πέτρας λ. Διόδ. 5. 39· μεταφ., λ. ἐκ τῆς κοιλίας Ἰουστῖν. Μάρτ. πρὸς Τρύφωνα 135. II. λ. λάκκον, πελεκῶ, [[σκάπτω]], Ἑβδ. (Ἔξ. ΚΑ΄, 33).
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{{StrongGR
|strgr=from the [[same]] as the [[first]] [[part]] of [[λαξευτός]] and the [[base]] of [[τομώτερος]]; to [[quarry]]: [[hew]].
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{{Thayer
|txtha=λατόμω: 1st aorist ἐλατόμησα; [[perfect]] [[passive]] participle λελατομημενος; (from [[λατόμος]] a [[stone]]-cutter, and [[this]] from [[λᾶς]] a [[stone]], and [[τέμνω]]); to [[cut]] stones, to [[hew]] [[out]] stones: Sept. [[several]] times for חָצַב; [[once]] for כָּרָה, Diodorus ([[Dionysius]] [[Halicarnassus]], Strabo, others (cf. [[Sophocles]] Lexicon, [[under]] the [[word]])), Justin Martyr.) 
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