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ἐπαινέτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπαινέτης ἐπαινέτου

Structure: ἐπαινετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from e)paine/w

Sense

  1. a commender, admirer

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπαινέτης ἐπαινέτᾱ ἐπαινέται
Genitive ἐπαινέτου ἐπαινέταιν ἐπαινετῶν
Dative ἐπαινέτῃ ἐπαινέταιν ἐπαινέταις
Accusative ἐπαινέτην ἐπαινέτᾱ ἐπαινέτᾱς
Vocative ἐπαινέτα ἐπαινέτᾱ ἐπαινέται

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

  • ἐπαινετὰ μέν ἐστι τὰ καλά, ψεκτὰ δὲ τὰ αἰσχρά. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 2:1)
  • τὸ προετικὸν εἶναι χρημάτων εἰσ τὰ ἐπαινετά, καὶ δαψιλῆ ἐπὶ τῷ εἰσ τὰ δέοντα ἀναλωθῆναι, καὶ τὸ βοηθητικὸν εἶναι ἐν τῷ διαφόρῳ, καὶ τὸ μὴ λαβεῖν ὅθεν μὴ δεῖ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 24:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἥ τε ἀρετὴ καὶ ἡ κακία καὶ τὰ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν ἔργα τὰ μὲν ἐπαινετὰ τὰ δὲ ψεκτά ψέγεται γὰρ καὶ ἐπαινεῖται οὐ διὰ τὰ ἐξ ἀνάγκησ ἢ τύχησ ἢ φύσεωσ ὑπάρχοντα, ἀλλ’ ὅσων αὐτοὶ αἴτιοι ἐσμέν· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 104:3)
  • τούτων δὲ καλά, ὅσα δι’ αὑτὰ ὄντα πάντα ἐπαινετὰ ἐστίν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 8 51:4)
  • ταῦτα γάρ ἐστιν ἀφ’ ὧν αἵ τε πράξεισ εἰσὶν ἐπαινεταὶ καὶ αὐτὰ ἐπαινετά, δικαιοσύνη καὶ αὐτὴ καὶ αἱ πράξεισ, καὶ οἱ σώφρονεσ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 8 51:5)

Synonyms

  1. a commender

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

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