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δεσμώτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δεσμώτης

Structure: δεσμωτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: desmo/w

Sense

  1. a prisoner, captive
  2. in chains, fettered

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

  • καὶ λαβὼν ὁ κύριοσ Ἰωσὴφ ἐνέβαλεν αὐτὸν εἰσ τὸ ὀχύρωμα, εἰσ τὸν τόπον, ἐν ᾦ οἱ δεσμῶται τοῦ βασιλέωσ κατέχονται ἐκεῖ ἐν τῷ ὀχυρώματι. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 39:20)
  • καὶ μὴν εἰ αὐτίκα δὴ μάλα κραυγὴν ἀκούσαιτε πρὸσ τῷ δικαστηρίῳ, εἶτ’ εἴποι τισ ὡσ ἀνέῳκται τὸ δεσμωτήριον, οἱ δὲ δεσμῶται φεύγουσιν, οὐδεὶσ οὔτε γέρων οὔτ’ ὀλίγωροσ οὕτωσ ὅστισ οὐχὶ βοηθήσειεν ἂν καθ’ ὅσον δύναται. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 284:1)
  • εἰ δέ γε ὠφέλει τὸ κεκτῆσθαι χρυσίον, οὐδὲν ἐκώλυεν Αἰθίοπασ τοὺσ ἄνω μακαριωτάτουσ εἶναι δοκεῖν, ὅπου τὸ χρυσίον ἀτιμότερον ἢ παῤ ἡμῖν ὁ μόλιβδοσ, καί φασιν αὐτόθι τοὺσ κακούργουσ ἐν παχείαισ χρυσοῦ δεδέσθαι πέδαισ, ἀλλ̓ οὐδὲν ἧττόν εἰσι δεσμῶται καὶ πονηροὶ καὶ ἄδικοι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 5:1)
  • καὶ νὴ Δία τύραννοι καὶ βασιλεῖσ καὶ δεσμῶται καὶ στιγματίαι καὶ κάπηλοι καὶ σκυτοτόμοι καὶ τἄλλα ὅσα ἐν ἀνθρώποισ ἐστίν, ἁπάσασ μὲν ἐργασίασ, ἅπαντασ δὲ βίουσ, ἁπάσασ δὲ τύχασ καὶ ξυμφορὰσ μετηλλαχότεσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 18:1)
  • ἀνήγοντο δὲ καὶ δεσμῶται πολλοὶ τῶν τυράννων· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 492:2)

Synonyms

  1. a prisoner

  2. in chains

Related

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

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