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ἐκκλησιαστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκκλησιαστής ἐκκλησιαστοῦ

Structure: ἐκκλησιαστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from e)kklhsi/a

Sense

  1. a member of the

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐκκλησιαστής ἐκκλησιαστᾱ́ ἐκκλησιασταί
Genitive ἐκκλησιαστοῦ ἐκκλησιασταῖν ἐκκλησιαστῶν
Dative ἐκκλησιαστῇ ἐκκλησιασταῖν ἐκκλησιασταῖς
Accusative ἐκκλησιαστήν ἐκκλησιαστᾱ́ ἐκκλησιαστᾱ́ς
Vocative ἐκκλησιαστά ἐκκλησιαστᾱ́ ἐκκλησιασταί

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

  • διατρίβοντοσ γάρ μου παρ’ αὐτοῖσ προὔθεσαν οἱ πρυτάνεισ ἐκκλησίαν περὶ τῶν κοινῇ συμφερόντων ἰδὼν οὖν πολλοὺσ συνθέοντασ ἀναμίξασ ἐμαυτὸν τοῖσ νεκροῖσ εὐθὺσ εἷσ καὶ αὐτὸσ ἦν τῶν ἐκκλησιαστῶν. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 19:4)
  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ τῶν ἐπῳδῶν ἔχεών τε καὶ φαλαγγίων καὶ σκορπίων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων θηρίων τε καὶ νόσων κήλησίσ ἐστιν, ἡ δὲ δικαστῶν τε καὶ ἐκκλησιαστῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὄχλων κήλησίσ τε καὶ παραμυθία τυγχάνει οὖσα· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 209:1)
  • οὔκουν οὐδὲ ἐκείνοισ ἀξύμφοροσ ἡ τοιαύτη δίαιτα ἐγένετο, οὐδὲ ἀγεννεῖσ ἤνεγκε φύσεισ πολιτῶν, ἀλλὰ τῷ παντὶ βελτίουσ καὶ σωφρονεστέρουσ τῶν ἐν ἄστει τρεφομένων ὕστερον ἐκκλησιαστῶν καὶ δικαστῶν καὶ γραμματέων, ἀργῶν ἅμα καὶ βαναύσων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 130:1)

Synonyms

  1. a member of the

Similar forms

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

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