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δημιουργός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δημιουργός δημιουροῦ

Structure: δημιουργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: E)/rgw

Sense

  1. one who works for the people, a skilled workman, handicraftsman, the maker of the world

Declension

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

  • γραφεῖσ δὲ καὶ δημιουργοὶ αὐτοῦ Αἰσχίνησ Σωκράτουσ ἑταῖροσ καὶ αὐτὸσ Σωκράτησ, μιμηλότατοι τεχνιτῶν ἁπάντων, ὅσῳ καὶ μετ’ ἔρωτοσ ἔγραφον. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 17:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ὦ γεωργοὶ κἄμποροι καὶ τέκτονεσ καὶ δημιουργοὶ καὶ μέτοικοι καὶ ξένοι καὶ νησιῶται, δεῦρ’ ἴτ’ ὦ πάντεσ λεῴ, ὡσ τάχιστ’ ἄμασ λαβόντεσ καὶ μοχλοὺσ καὶ σχοινία· (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests 3:49)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ τὰσ Ἀπελλοῦ καὶ Ζεύξιδοσ καὶ Πρωτογένουσ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων γραφέων τῶν διωνομασμένων τέχνασ οἱ μὴ τὰσ αὐτὰσ ἔχοντεσ ἐκείνοισ ἀρετὰσ κρίνειν κεκώλυνται, οὐδὲ τὰ Φειδίου καὶ Πολυκλείτου καὶ Μύρωνοσ ἔργα οἱ μὴ τηλικοῦτοι δημιουργοί. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 4 1:1)
  • τέτταρεσ δ’ αὐλητρίδεσ ἔχουσι μισθὸν καὶ μάγειροι δώδεκα καὶ δημιουργοὶ μέλιτοσ αἰτοῦσαι σκάφασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 72 2:2)
  • ἀπηλλαγμένοι γὰρ οἱ δημιουργοὶ τῶν ἀχρήστων ἐν τοῖσ ἀναγκαίοισ ἐπεδείκνυντο τὴν καλλιτεχνίαν. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 9 5:2)

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