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Ὀρφεοτελεστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὀρφεοτελεστής Ὀρφεοτελεστοῦ

Structure: Ὀρφεοτελεστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. one who initiates into the mysteries of Orpheus, a hierophant

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Ὀρφεοτελεστής Ὀρφεοτελεστᾱ́ Ὀρφεοτελεσταί
Genitive Ὀρφεοτελεστοῦ Ὀρφεοτελεσταῖν Ὀρφεοτελεστῶν
Dative Ὀρφεοτελεστῇ Ὀρφεοτελεσταῖν Ὀρφεοτελεσταῖς
Accusative Ὀρφεοτελεστήν Ὀρφεοτελεστᾱ́ Ὀρφεοτελεστᾱ́ς
Vocative Ὀρφεοτελεστά Ὀρφεοτελεστᾱ́ Ὀρφεοτελεσταί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ τελεσθησόμενοσ πρὸσ τοὺσ Ὀρφεοτελεστὰσ κατὰ μῆνα πορεύεσθαι μετὰ τῆσ γυναικὸσ ἐὰν δὲ μὴ σχολάζῃ η γυνή, μετὰ τῆσ τίτθησ καὶ τῶν παίδων. (Theophrastus, Characters, 12:2)

Synonyms

  1. one who initiates into the mysteries of Orpheus

Similar forms

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

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