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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 τὰ φυόμενα ταῦτα καὶ τὸν καρπὸν τὸν ἐκ γῆσ ἕνεκα τοῦ παραμένειν ἡμᾶσ γίγνεσθαι, καθάπερ δεσμώταισ τροφὴν διδομένην ἀηδῆ τε καὶ φαύλην· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 20:1)
  • τὰσ δὲ δὴ σκιὰσ ἐκείνασ πάλιν εἰ δέοι αὐτὸν γνωματεύοντα διαμιλλᾶσθαι τοῖσ ἀεὶ δεσμώταισ ἐκείνοισ, ἐν ᾧ ἀμβλυώττει, πρὶν καταστῆναι τὰ ὄμματα, οὗτοσ δ’ ὁ χρόνοσ μὴ πάνυ ὀλίγοσ εἰή τῆσ συνηθείασ, ἆρ’ οὐ γέλωτ’ ἂν παράσχοι, καὶ λέγοιτο ἂν περὶ αὐτοῦ ὡσ ἀναβὰσ ἄνω διεφθαρμένοσ ἥκει τὰ ὄμματα, καὶ ὅτι οὐκ ἄξιον οὐδὲ πειρᾶσθαι ἄνω ἰέναι; (Plato, Republic, book 7 49:1)
  • οἱ συλληφθέντεσ δὲ μεθ’ ἡμέραν ἀνῃροῦντο νύκτωρ, καὶ τοὺσ νεκροὺσ ἐκφοροῦντεσ ἔρριπτον, ὡσ ἑτέροισ εἰή δεσμώταισ τόποσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 374:1)

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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