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ἀθλητής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀθλητής ἀθλητοῦ

Structure: ἀθλητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: a)qle/w

Sense

  1. a combatant, champion, especially a prizefighter
  2. (as an adjective) pertaining to competition

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

  • ἐν τῇ συνθέσει τῶν ὀνομάτων Λυσίαν μὲν ἀφελέστερον ἔκρινον, Ἰσοκράτην δὲ περιεργότερον, καὶ τὸν μὲν τῆσ ἀληθείασ πιθανώτερον εἰκαστήν, τὸν δὲ τῆσ κατασκευῆσ ἀθλητὴν ἰσχυρότερον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 11 2:2)
  • τοιαῦτα ἀπολαύσονται τῶν Διὸσ ἐρώτων καὶ καθεδοῦνται περιμένοντεσ, ἔστ̓ ἂν ἐκεῖνοσ ἀποτελέσῃ τὸν ἀθλητήν, ὃν λέγεισ, ὑπὸ μακρῷ τῷ ζόφῳ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:5)
  • μᾶλλον δὲ ὑπέρμεγα τοῦτο κακόν, εἰ μὴ εἰδείη τισ χωρίζειν τὰ ἱστορίασ καὶ τὰ ποιητικῆσ, ἀλλ̓ ἐπεισάγει τῇ ἱστορίᾳ τὰ τῆσ ἑτέρασ κομμώματα, τὸν μῦθον καὶ τὸ ἐγκώμιον καὶ τὰσ ἐν τούτοισ ὑπερβολάσ, ὥσπερ ἂν εἴ τισ ἀθλητὴν τῶν καρτερῶν τούτων καὶ κομιδῇ πρινίνων ἁλουργίσι περιβάλοι καὶ τῷ ἄλλῳ κόσμῳ τῷ ἑταιρικῷ καὶ φυκίον ἐντρίβοι καὶ ψιμύθιον τῷ προσώπῳ, Ἡράκλεισ ὡσ καταγέλαστον αὐτὸν ἀπεργάσαιτο αἰσχύνασ τῷ κόσμῳ ἐκείνῳ. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 8 2:1)
  • "τὸν ἀθλητὴν ὑπὸ παιδισκαρίου τραχηλιζόμενον; (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 12 1:1)
  • Κλειτόμαχοσ γοῦν ὁ Καρχηδόνιοσ οὐδενὸσ δεύτεροσ τῶν ἀπὸ τῆσ νέασ Ἀκαδημείασ κατὰ τὴν θεωρίαν ὢν Θηβαῖόν τινα ἀθλητὴν ὑπερβαλεῖν ἰσχύι φησὶ τοὺσ καθ’ ἑαυτὸν κρέασιν αἰγείοισ χρώμενον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 664)

Synonyms

  1. pertaining to competition

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