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δωτήρ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δωτήρ δωτῆρος

Structure: δωτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: di/dwmi

Sense

  1. a giver

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

  • πρέποι γὰρ ἄν, ὥσπερ οἱ θεοὶ δωτῆρεσ ἐάων εἰσίν, οὕτω δὲ καὶ ὑμῖν τοῖσ φίλοισ καὶ μαθηταῖσ αὐτῶν μετὰ πάσησ ἀληθείασ ἐξηγεῖσθαι περὶ ὧν ἴστε καὶ λύειν ἡμῖν τὰσ ἀπορίασ. (Lucian, 5:2)
  • αἳ δ’ ἄμβροτον ὄσσαν ἱεῖσαι θεῶν γένοσ αἰδοῖον πρῶτον κλείουσιν ἀοιδῇ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ, οὓσ Γαῖα καὶ Οὐρανὸσ εὐρὺσ ἔτικτεν, οἵ τ’ ἐκ τῶν ἐγένοντο θεοί, δωτῆρεσ ἐάων. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 6:5)
  • εἴπατε δ’, ὡσ τὰ πρῶτα θεοὶ καὶ γαῖα γένοντο καὶ ποταμοὶ καὶ πόντοσ ἀπείριτοσ, οἴδματι θυίων, ἄστρα τε λαμπετόωντα καὶ οὐρανὸσ εὐρὺσ ὕπερθεν οἵ τ’ ἐκ τῶν ἐγένοντο θεοί, δωτῆρεσ ἐάων ὥσ τ’ ἄφενοσ δάσσαντο καὶ ὡσ τιμὰσ διέλοντο ἠδὲ καὶ ὡσ τὰ πρῶτα πολύπτυχον ἔσχον Ὄλυμπον. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 12:3)
  • δηρὸν γὰρ μάρναντο πόνον θυμαλγέ’ ἔχοντεσ Τιτῆνέσ τε θεοὶ καὶ ὅσοι Κρόνου ἐξεγένοντο, ἀντίον ἀλλήλοισι διὰ κρατερὰσ ὑσμίνασ, οἳ μὲν ἀφ’ ὑψηλῆσ Ὄθρυοσ Τιτῆνεσ ἀγαυοί, οἳ δ’ ἄρ’ ἀπ’ Οὐλύμποιο θεοί, δωτῆρεσ ἐάων, οὓσ τέκεν ἠύκομοσ Ῥείη Κρόνῳ εὐνηθεῖσα. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 60:6)
  • ἐπῄνεσσαν δὲ θεοί, δωτῆρεσ ἐάων, μῦθον ἀκούσαντεσ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 65:2)

Synonyms

  1. a giver

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

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