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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

  • ἦσαν δ’ αὐτῷ πολλαχῇ διεσπαρμένοι κατόπται τινὲσ καὶ διερευνηταὶ τῶν λεγομένων τε καὶ πραττομένων λεληθότεσ τοὺσ πολλούσ, οἳ συγκαθιέντεσ εἰσ ὁμιλίαν τοῖσ πέλασ καὶ ἔστιν ὅτε κατὰ τοῦ τυράννου λέγοντεσ αὐτοί, πεῖραν τῆσ ἑκάστου γνώμησ ἐλάμβανον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 43 4:1)
  • οἱ δὲ διερευνηταὶ ὡσ εἶδον ταῦτα, αὐτοί τε ἐδίωκον καὶ τῷ Γαδάτᾳ κατέσειον· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 5:3)

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

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