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διαφθορεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαφθορεύς διαφθορέως

Structure: διαφθορευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from diafqei/rw

Sense

  1. a corrupter

Declension

Third 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

  • αὐτὸσ δὲ πρῶτον μὲν ἐὰν εἰσ τῶν ἐγγύτατά τινα πόλεων ἔλθῃσ, ἢ Θήβαζε ἢ Μέγαράδε ‐ εὐνομοῦνται γὰρ ἀμφότεραι ‐ πολέμιοσ ἥξεισ, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, τῇ τούτων πολιτείᾳ, καὶ ὅσοιπερ κήδονται τῶν αὑτῶν πόλεων ὑποβλέψονταί σε διαφθορέα ἡγούμενοι τῶν νόμων, καὶ βεβαιώσεισ τοῖσ δικασταῖσ τὴν δόξαν, ὥστε δοκεῖν ὀρθῶσ τὴν δίκην δικάσαι· (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 64:1)

Synonyms

  1. a corrupter

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

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