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ἀποδέκτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποδέκτης

Structure: ἀποδεκτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a receiver

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀποδέκτης ἀποδέκτᾱ ἀποδέκται
Genitive ἀποδέκτου ἀποδέκταιν ἀποδεκτῶν
Dative ἀποδέκτῃ ἀποδέκταιν ἀποδέκταις
Accusative ἀποδέκτην ἀποδέκτᾱ ἀποδέκτᾱς
Vocative ἀποδέκτα ἀποδέκτᾱ ἀποδέκται

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

  • καλοῦσι δ’ ἀποδέκτασ τούτουσ καὶ ταμίασ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 6 115:1)
  • καὶ πολλὰ τῶν ὑμετέρων κέκλοφεν μετὰ τούτου, γράψασ τοὺσ ἕνδεκα καὶ τοὺσ ἀποδέκτασ καὶ τοὺσ ὑπηρέτασ ἀκολουθεῖν μεθ’ αὑτοῦ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 230:1)
  • οὐ γάρ ἐστι τῆσ αὐτῆσ ψυχῆσ Ἀνδροτίωνα μὲν καὶ Μελάνωπον καὶ Γλαυκέτην ἐλεεῖν, ἃ κλέψαντεσ εἶχον εἰ καταθήσουσι, τουτωνὶ δὲ τοσούτων ὄντων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων πολιτῶν, ὧν ἐπὶ τὰσ οἰκίασ ἐβάδιζεσ σὺ τοὺσ ἕνδεκα καὶ τοὺσ ἀποδέκτασ ἔχων καὶ τοὺσ ὑπηρέτασ, μηδένα πώποτ’ ἐλεῆσαι, ἀλλὰ θύρασ ἀφαιρεῖν καὶ στρώμαθ’ ὑποσπᾶν καὶ διάκονον, εἴ τισ ἐχρῆτο, ταύτην ἐνεχυράζειν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 271:1)
  • ἀποδέκτασ δὲ τῶν προσόδων χειροτονοῦντεσ καὶ ὁπόσα ἡ γῆ φέροι ἄνδρασ ἀγαθούσ, ἱερεῖσ δὲ ἐπὶ ποιήσει σίτου τε καὶ βρωμάτων. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 28:1)

Synonyms

  1. a receiver

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

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