Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δήμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δήμιος δήμιος δήμιον

Structure: δημι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: dh=mos

Sense

  1. public, belonging to the people
  2. (masculine substantive), public executioner
  3. public physician

Declension

First/Second 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

  • μὴ φοβηθῇσ τὸν δήμιον τοῦτον, ἀλλὰ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἄξιοσ γενόμενοσ, ἐπίδεξαι τὸν θάνατον, ἵνα ἐν τῷ ἐλέει σὺν τοῖσ ἀδελφοῖσ σου κομίσωμαί σε. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 7:29)
  • "ἐμοῦ μὲν γὰρ ἀνάξιόσ ἐστι καὶ τῆσ ἐμῆσ δεξιᾶσ, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπ’ ἔργῳ λαμπρῷ καὶ νεανικῷ καὶ γενναίῳ ἀνῃρημένοσ,^ καταισχύνων κἀκείνην τὴν σφαγήν ἄξιον δέ τινα δεῖ ζητῆσαι δήμιον, ἀλλαγὴν συμφορᾶσ μηδὲ τὴν αὐτὴν κερδαίνειν. (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 8:5)
  • νὴ τὸν Δία τὸν σωτῆρ’ ἐπιτήδειόσ γ’ ἂν ἦν τὴν τοῦ πανόπτου διφθέραν ἐνημμένοσ εἴπερ τισ ἄλλοσ βουκολεῖν τὸ δήμιον. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 2:26)
  • καὶ Λυσίμαχον αὐτῆσ ἀγαγούσησ ὡσ τὸν δήμιον, καθήμενον ἤδη μέλλοντα ἀποθνῄσκειν, Εὐμηλίδησ ὁ Ἀλωπεκῆθεν ἀφείλετο, οὐ φάσκων δεῖν ἄνευ δικαστηρίου γνώσεωσ οὐδένα τῶν πολιτῶν ἀποθνῄσκειν· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 45 1:2)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ ὑπέροισ σιδηροῖσ κατέπτισσε καὶ κατέκοπτεν ἐκεῖνον ὁ δὲ τῷ Φιλήμονι τὸν δήμιον ἐκέλευσεν ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλον ἐπιθεῖναι γυμνὴν τὴν μάχαιραν εἶτ’ ἀφεῖναι. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 10 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. public

  2. public physician

Related

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

Find this word at Wiktionary

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION