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δοτήρ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δοτήρ δοτῆρος

Structure: δοτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: di/dwmi

Sense

  1. a giver, dispenser

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

  • πολλοὶ δ’ ἔντοσθεν ὀιστοὶ ῥιγηλοί, θανάτοιο λαθιφθόγγοιο δοτῆρεσ. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 11:5)
  • τί γὰρ μᾶλλον ἀγαθῶν ἢ κακῶν δοτῆρεσ ἔσονται; (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 14 3:1)
  • τελευταῖα δὲ πάντων αἱ τῶν θεῶν εἰκόνεσ ἐπόμπευον ὤμοισ ὑπ’ ἀνδρῶν φερόμεναι, μορφάσ θ’ ὁμοίασ παρέχουσαι ταῖσ παρ’ Ἕλλησι πλαττομέναισ καὶ σκευὰσ καὶ σύμβολα καὶ δωρεάσ, ὧν εὑρεταὶ καὶ δοτῆρεσ ἀνθρώποισ ἕκαστοι παραδίδονται, οὐ μόνον Διὸσ καὶ Ἥρασ καὶ Ἀθηνᾶσ καὶ Ποσειδῶνοσ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων, οὓσ Ἕλληνεσ ἐν τοῖσ δώδεκα θεοῖσ καταριθμοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν προγενεστέρων, ἐξ ὧν οἱ δώδεκα θεοὶ μυθολογοῦνται γενέσθαι, Κρόνου καὶ Ῥέασ καὶ Θέμιδοσ καὶ Λητοῦσ καὶ Μοιρῶν καὶ Μνημοσύνησ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων, ὅσων ἐστὶν ἱερὰ καὶ τεμένη παρ’ Ἕλλησι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 72 22:3)
  • Κῦροσ δ’ ἐπὶ μὲν τἆλλα καθίστη ἄλλουσ ἐπιμελητάσ, καὶ ἦσαν αὐτῷ καὶ προσόδων ἀποδεκτῆρεσ καὶ δαπανημάτων δοτῆρεσ καὶ ἔργων ἐπιστάται καὶ κτημάτων φύλακεσ καὶ τῶν εἰσ τὴν δίαιταν ἐπιτηδείων ἐπιμεληταί· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 12:1)
  • καί ῥ’ οἵ περ τὸ πάροσ γε νεῶν ἐν ἀγῶνι μένεσκον οἵ τε κυβερνῆται καὶ ἔχον οἰήϊα νηῶν καὶ ταμίαι παρὰ νηυσὶν ἔσαν σίτοιο δοτῆρεσ, καὶ μὴν οἳ τότε γ’ εἰσ ἀγορὴν ἴσαν, οὕνεκ’ Ἀχιλλεὺσ ἐξεφάνη, δηρὸν δὲ μάχησ ἐπέπαυτ’ ἀλεγεινῆσ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 19 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. a giver

Related

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

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