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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

  • κληροῦνται δὲ καὶ ἱερῶν ἐπισκευασταὶ δέκα ἄνδρεσ, οἳ λαμβάνοντεσ τριάκοντα μνᾶσ παρὰ τῶν ἀποδεκτῶν ἐπισκευάζουσιν τὰ μάλιστα δεόμενα τῶν ἱερῶν· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 50 1:2)
  • διὰ δὲ τὴν πρὸσ Εὔβουλον γενομένην πίστιν ὑμῖν οἱ ἐπὶ τὸ θεωρικὸν κεχειροτονημένοι ἦρχον μέν, πρὶν ἢ τὸν Ἡγήμονοσ νόμον γενέσθαι, τὴν τοῦ ἀντιγραφέωσ ἀρχήν, ἦρχον δὲ τὴν τῶν ἀποδεκτῶν, καὶ νεωρίων ἦρχον, καὶ σκευοθήκην ᾠκοδόμουν, ἦσαν δὲ καὶ ὁδοποιοί, καὶ σχεδὸν τὴν ὅλην διοίκησιν εἶχον τῆσ πόλεωσ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 25 1:2)

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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