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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative δεσμώτης δεσμώτᾱ δεσμῶται
Genitive δεσμώτου δεσμώταιν δεσμωτῶν
Dative δεσμώτῃ δεσμώταιν δεσμώταις
Accusative δεσμώτην δεσμώτᾱ δεσμώτᾱς
Vocative δεσμῶτα δεσμώτᾱ δεσμῶται

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

  • "ὦ Φυλλίδα, τηνικαῦτα μετεπέμψαντο δεσμώτην οἱ πολέμαρχοι; (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 33 3:1)
  • οἱ δὲ τοῦτο μὲν ἀγνοοῦσι καὶ οὐδέποτ̓ ἂν οἰηθεῖεν πτωχὸν ἢ δεσμώτην ἢ ἄδοξον γενέσθαι βασιλέα, καίτοι τὸν Ὀδυσσέα ἀκούοντεσ ὅτι πτωχὸσ ὢν καὶ τοὺσ μνηστῆρασ αἰτῶν οὐδὲν ἧττον βασιλεὺσ ἦν καὶ τῆσ οἰκίασ κύριοσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 35:1)
  • καὶ τοὺσ μὲν ἄλλουσ τοῖσ ἄγουσιν ἐκέλευσεν οὐδ’ ἐσ ὄψιν οἱ προσαχθέντασ ἀνελεῖν, Κάρβωνα δὲ παραστησάμενοσ αὑτοῦ τοῖσ ποσὶ δεσμώτην τρὶσ ὕπατον ἐπεδημηγόρησε καὶ κατέκανε καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐσ Σύλλαν ἔπεμψεν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 11 2:10)
  • Πάρθοι δὲ καίτοι διημαρτηκότεσ ὧν μάλιστα ἐπεθύμουν γυναικῶν καθιστᾶσιν μὲν ἐν Ιἑροσολύμοισ Ἀντιγόνῳ τὰ πράγματα, δεσμώτην δ’ Ὑρκανὸν ἀνάγουσιν εἰσ τὴν Παρθυηνήν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 394:2)
  • Σόσσιοσ δὲ χρυσοῦν ἀναθεὶσ τῷ θεῷ στέφανον ἀνέζευξεν ἀπὸ Ιἑροσολύμων ἄγων δεσμώτην Ἀντίγονον Ἀντωνίῳ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 512:1)

Synonyms

  1. a prisoner

  2. in chains

Related

Similar forms

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

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