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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

  • χρὴ δὲ οὐδέτερα τούτων, ἀλλ’ ἐκείνουσ μάλιστα ἐπαινέτασ ἡμῶν εἶναι ἔργῳ, παρέχοντασ αὑτοὺσ φαινομένουσ τῷ ὄντι πατέρασ ὄντασ ἄνδρασ ἀνδρῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 30 5:1)
  • ἔπειτα, ὅτι ἐκείνουσ πολλοὶ ἐπαινοῦσι, καὶ τούτῳ πολλοὺσ ἐπαινέτασ παρασκευαστέον. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 7 3:4)
  • χρὴ δὲ οὐδέτερα τούτων, ἀλλ’ ἐκείνουσ μάλιστα ἡμῶν ἐπαινέτασ εἶναι ἔργῳ, παρέχοντασ αὑτοὺσ φαινομένουσ τῷ ὄντι πατέρασ ὄντασ ἄνδρασ ἀνδρῶν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 90:1)
  • καὶ τούτων τῶν ποιημάτων τοὺσ μὲν εὐσχημόνωσ βεβιωκότασ εὑρήσετε ἐπαινέτασ ὄντασ· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1294)
  • καὶ πρὸσ τῷ ἀγκῶνι λανθάνει σε ὅτι οἱ μέγιστον φρονοῦντεσ τῶν πολιτικῶν μάλιστα ἐρῶσι λογογραφίασ τε καὶ καταλείψεωσ συγγραμμάτων, οἵ γε καὶ ἐπειδάν τινα γράφωσι λόγον, οὕτωσ ἀγαπῶσι τοὺσ ἐπαινέτασ, ὥστε προσπαραγράφουσι πρώτουσ οἳ ἂν ἑκασταχοῦ ἐπαινῶσιν αὐτούσ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 211:1)

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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