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διορθωτής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διορθωτής διορθωτοῦ

Structure: διορθωτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from diorqo/w

Sense

  1. a corrector, reformer

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

  • ταχὺ μέντοι τοῦ συμφέροντοσ αἰσθόμενοι καὶ τὰσ ἰδίασ αὑτῶν μέμψεισ ἀφέντεσ ἔθυσάν τε κοινῇ, σεισάχθειαν τὴν θυσίαν ὀνομάσαντεσ, καὶ τὸν Σόλωνα τῆσ πολιτείασ διορθωτὴν καὶ νομοθέτην ἀπέδειξαν, οὐ τὰ μέν, τὰ δ’ οὐχί, πάντα δ’ ὁμαλῶσ ἐπιτρέψαντεσ, ἀρχάσ, ἐκκλησίασ, δικαστήρια, βουλάσ, καί τίμημα τούτων ἑκάστου καὶ ἀριθμὸν καὶ καιρὸν ὁρίσαι, λύοντα καὶ φυλάττοντα τῶν ὑπαρχόντων καὶ καθεστώτων ὅ τι δοκοίη. (Plutarch, , chapter 16 3:1)

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

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