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Ὀλυμπιονίκης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὀλυμπιονίκης

Structure: Ὀλυμπιονικ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: nika/w

Sense

  1. a conqueror in the Olympic games

Examples

  • πάντων τε δὴ τούτων ἀπαλλάξονται, ζήσουσί τε τοῦ μακαριστοῦ βίου ὃν οἱ Ὀλυμπιονῖκαι ζῶσι μακαριώτερον. (Plato, Republic, book 5 390:1)
  • Ὀλυμπιονῖκαι α’. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. a'. ARISTOTELHS 25:19)

Synonyms

  1. a conqueror in the Olympic games

Related

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

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