Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

διερευνητής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διερευνητής διερευνητοῦ

Structure: διερευνητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from diereuna/w

Sense

  1. a scout or vidette

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

  • ὁ δὲ Ἀσσύριοσ ὡσ ἔγνω προσιόντασ τοὺσ διερευνητάσ, φεύγειν κελεύει ἁρ́ματα ἐξαναστάντα δύο ἢ τρία καὶ ἵππουσ ὀλίγουσ, ὡσ δὴ φοβηθέντασ καὶ ὀλίγουσ ὄντασ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 5:2)
  • ὁ δὲ Κῦροσ ἐπορεύετο ὡσ ἐδύνατο τάχιστα, τοὺσ ἱππέασ μὲν πρώτουσ ἔχων, καὶ πρὸ τούτων διερευνητὰσ καὶ σκοποὺσ αἰεὶ ἀναβιβάζων ἐπὶ τὰ πρόσθεν εὐσκοπώτατα· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 3:2)

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

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