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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

  • Τοῦ δὲ διορθωτοῦ εἰσελθόντοσ πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἦν δ’ οὗτοσ Ἐπικούρειοσ Ἄξιον, ἔφη, τοὺσ ἰδιώτασ ἡμᾶσ παρ’ ὑμῶν τῶν φιλοσόφων πυνθάνεσθαι, καθάπερ τοὺσ εἰσ ξένην πόλιν ἐλθόντασ παρὰ τῶν πολιτῶν καὶ εἰδότων, τί κράτιστόν ἐστιν ἐν κόσμῳ, ἵνα καὶ αὐτοὶ ἱστορήσαντεσ μετίωμεν, ὡσ ἐκεῖνοι τὰ ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσι, καὶ θεώμεθα. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 1:1)

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

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