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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

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

  • εἰσὶ δ’ ἀποδέκται δέκα κεκληρωμένοι κατὰ φυλάσ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 48 1:1)
  • οὗτοι μὲν οὖν ταύτασ δικάζουσιν ἐμμήνουσ εἰσάγοντεσ, οἱ δ’ ἀποδέκται τοῖσ τελώναισ καὶ κατὰ τῶν τελωνῶν, τὰ μὲν μέχρι δέκα δραχμῶν ὄντεσ κύριοι, τὰ δ’ ἄλλ’ εἰσ τὸ δικαστήριον εἰσάγοντεσ ἔμμηνα. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 52 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a receiver

Related

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

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