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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

  • ἡ μὲν <γὰρ> ἐγκράτεια τοιοῦτον, τῶν ἐπαινετῶν δ’ ἡ ἐγκράτεια. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 205:5)
  • σχεδὸν δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστα τῶν περὶ τὸ ἦθοσ ἐπαινετῶν καὶ ψεκτῶν τὰ μὲν ὑπερβολαὶ τὰ δ’ ἐλλείψεισ τὰ δὲ μεσότητέσ εἰσι παθητικαί. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 124:1)
  • περὶ μὲν οὖν τῶν ἄλλων ἀρετῶν τῶν ἐπαινετῶν εἴρηται σχεδόν· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 149:1)
  • αἱρέσεισ τῶν φύσει μὲν ἀγαθῶν οὐκ ἐπαινετῶν δὲ δεῖ τινα εἶναι ὁρ́ον καὶ τῆσ ἕξεωσ καὶ τῆσ αἱρέσεωσ καὶ περὶ φυγῆσ <καὶ περὶ> χρημάτων πλήθουσ καὶ ὀλιγότητοσ καὶ τῶν εὐτυχημάτων. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 8 66:1)
  • διωρισμένων δὲ τούτων ἐπισκεψώμεθα περὶ τῆσ εὐδαιμονίασ πότερα τῶν ἐπαινετῶν ἐστὶν ἢ μᾶλλον τῶν τιμίων· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 127:1)

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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