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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

  • καὶ λήψονται ἐπὶ σὲ θρῆνον καὶ ἐροῦσί σοι. πῶσ κατελύθησ ἐκ θαλάσσησ, ἡ πόλισ ἡ ἐπαινετή, ἡ δοῦσα τὸν φόβον αὐτῆσ πᾶσι τοῖσ κατοικοῦσιν αὐτήν̣ (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 26:17)
  • ἥ τε γὰρ εὐτραπελία ἡ τοιαύτη, καὶ μὴ ἣν μεταφέροντεσ λέγομεν, ἐπιεικεστάτη ἕξισ, καὶ ἡ μεσότησ ἐπαινετή, τὰ δ’ ἄκρα ψεκτά. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 137:4)
  • ἐπαινετὴ γὰρ καὶ ἡ σωφροσύνη. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 8 52:1)
  • τὸ μὲν ἄρα τοσοῦτο δηλοῖ ὅτι ἡ μέση ἕξισ ἐν πᾶσιν ἐπαινετή, ἀποκλίνειν δὲ δεῖ ὁτὲ μὲν ἐπὶ τὴν ὑπερβολὴν ὁτὲ δ’ ἐπὶ τὴν ἔλλειψιν· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2 114:5)
  • ἀλλὰ τό γε τοσοῦτον δῆλον, ὅτι ἡ μὲν μέση ἕξισ ἐπαινετή, καθ’ ἣν οἷσ δεῖ ὀργιζόμεθα καὶ ἐφ’ οἷσ δεῖ καὶ ὡσ δεῖ καὶ πάντα τὰ τοιαῦτα, αἱ δ’ ὑπερβολαὶ καὶ ἐλλείψεισ ψεκταί, καὶ ἐπὶ μικρὸν μὲν γινόμεναι ἠρέμα, ἐπὶ πλέον δὲ μᾶλλον, ἐπὶ πολὺ δὲ σφόδρα. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 117:3)

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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