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δωρητός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δωρητός δωρητόν

Structure: δωρητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from dwre/w

Sense

  1. open to gifts or presents
  2. freely given

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἐν τούτῳ δὲ σῖτοσ ἧκεν εἰσ Ῥώμην, πολὺσ μέν ὠνητὸσ ἐξ Ἰταλίασ, οὐκ ἐλάττων δὲ δωρητὸσ ἐκ Συρακουσῶν, Γέλωνοσ τοῦ τυράννου πέμψαντοσ· (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 16 1:1)
  • ὦ πλοῦτε καὶ τυραννὶ καὶ τέχνη τέχνησ ὑπερφέρουσα τῷ πολυζήλῳ βίῳ, ὅσοσ παρ’ ὑμῖν ὁ φθόνοσ φυλάσσεται, εἰ τῆσδέ γ’ ἀρχῆσ οὕνεχ’, ἣν ἐμοὶ πόλισ δωρητόν, οὐκ αἰτητόν, εἰσεχείρισεν, ταύτησ Κρέων ὁ πιστόσ, οὑξ ἀρχῆσ φίλοσ, λάθρᾳ μ’ ὑπελθὼν ἐκβαλεῖν ἱμείρεται, ὑφεὶσ μάγον τοιόνδε μηχανορράφον, δόλιον ἀγύρτην, ὅστισ ἐν τοῖσ κέρδεσιν μόνον δέδορκε, τὴν τέχνην δ’ ἔφυ τυφλόσ. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 6:1)
  • ἐν ἀρχῇ μὲν τὰ τοιαῦτα, "ἀγρὸν γὰρ ἔλαβεν ἀργὸν παρ’ αὐτοῦ" , δωρητοί τ’ ἐπέλοντο παράρρητοί τ’ ἐπέεσσιν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 9 9:3)
  • δωρητοί τε πέλοντο παράρρητοί τ’ ἐπέεσσι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 9 27:18)

Synonyms

  1. freely given

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

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