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ἐπιβάτης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιβάτης ἐπιβάτες

Structure: ἐπιβατη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pibai/nw

Sense

  1. one who mounts or embarks;
  2. the soldiers on board, the fighting men
  3. a merchant on board ship, supercargo
  4. the fighting man

Declension

Third declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἐπιβάτης ἐπίβατες
Genitive ἐπιβάτους ἐπιβάτους
Dative ἐπιβάτει ἐπιβάτει
Accusative ἐπιβάτη ἐπίβατες
Vocative ἐπιβάτες ἐπίβατες
DualN/A/V ἐπιβάτει ἐπιβάτει
G/D ἐπιβάτοιν ἐπιβάτοιν
PluralNominative ἐπιβάτεις ἐπιβάτη
Genitive ἐπιβάτων ἐπιβάτων
Dative ἐπιβάτεσιν* ἐπιβάτεσιν*
Accusative ἐπιβάτεις ἐπιβάτη
Vocative ἐπιβάτεις ἐπιβάτη
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἐπιβάτης ἐπιβάτους ἐπιβατέστερος ἐπιβατεστέρου ἐπιβατέστατος ἐπιβατεστάτου
Adverb ἐπιβατέως ἐπιβατέστερον ἐπιβατέστατα

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

  • ὁ δὲ Ἑρμῆσ βραδύνει, πάλαι παρεῖναι δέον κενὸν γοῦν ἐπιβατῶν, ὡσ ὁρᾷσ, ἔστι τὸ πορθμεῖον τρὶσ ἤδη τήμερον ἀναπεπλευκέναι δυνάμενον καὶ σχεδὸν ἀμφὶ βουλυτόν ἐστιν, ἡμεῖσ δὲ οὐδέπω οὐδὲ ὀβολὸν ἐμπεπολήκαμεν. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 1:3)
  • νυνὶ δὲ καὶ ἔπλεον ὑφ̓ ἁπάντων εὐδαιμονιζόμενοσ τῶν ἐπιβατῶν φοβερὸσ τοῖσ ναύταισ καὶ μονονουχὶ βασιλεὺσ νομιζόμενοσ. (Lucian, 24:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἤντλησα καὶ τῆσ κώπησ συνεπελαβόμην καὶ οὐκ ἔκλαον μόνοσ τῶν ἄλλων ἐπιβατῶν. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:11)
  • οἱᾶ δὲ καὶ ἐλάλει παρὰ τὸν πλοῦν τῶν ἐπιβατῶν ἁπάντων καταγελῶν καὶ ἐπισκώπτων καὶ μόνοσ ᾅδων οἰμωζόντων ἐκείνων. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6:7)
  • Τιβεριεῖσ δὲ τὴν παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέωσ δύναμιν ὡσ ἔγνωσαν οὐχ ἥκουσαν αὐτοῖσ, πλοίων δὲ τὴν λίμνην πᾶσαν ἐθεάσαντο πλήρη, δείσαντεσ περὶ τῇ πόλει καὶ καταπλαγέντεσ ὡσ ἐπιβατῶν πλήρεισ εἶναι νέασ, μετατίθενται τὰσ γνώμασ. (Flavius Josephus, 198:1)

Synonyms

  1. one who mounts or embarks

  2. the soldiers on board

  3. a merchant on board ship

  4. the fighting man

Related

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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