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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

  • εἰ γὰρ παρὰ δύναμιν καὶ παρὰ ἡλικίαν καὶ παρὰ τοὺσ ὁμοίουσ, καὶ εἰ οὕτωσ ἢ ἐνταῦθα ἢ τότε, ἕξει μέγεθοσ καὶ καλῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ δικαίων καὶ τῶν ἐναντίων, ὅθεν καὶ τὸ ἐπίγραμμα τῷ Ὀλυμπιονίκῃ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 7 32:2)
  • συνέστειλε δὲ καὶ τὰσ τιμὰσ τῶν ἐν ἀγῶσιν ἀθλητῶν, Ὀλυμπιονίκῃ μὲν τάξασ πεντακοσίασ δραχμάσ, Ἰσθμιονίκῃ δὲ ἑκατόν, καὶ ἀνὰ λόγον ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. b'. SOLWN 11:8)

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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