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ἐπιστολεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιστολεύς ἐπιστολέως

Structure: ἐπιστολευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pistolh/

Sense

  1. secretary, a courier
  2. a vice-admiral

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπιστολεύς ἐπιστολή ἐπιστολής
Genitive ἐπιστολέως ἐπιστολέοιν ἐπιστολέων
Dative ἐπιστολεί ἐπιστολέοιν ἐπιστολεῦσιν*
Accusative ἐπιστολέα ἐπιστολή ἐπιστολέᾱς
Vocative ἐπιστολεύ ἐπιστολή ἐπιστολής

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 δὲ τοῦ βασιλέωσ ἐπιστολὴ περιεῖχεν οὕτωσ. «Βασιλεὺσ Ἀντίοχοσ τῷ ἀδελφῷ Λυσίᾳ χαίρειν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 11:22)
  • Πρὸσ δὲ τὸ ἔθνοσ ἡ τοῦ βασιλέωσ ἐπιστολὴ τοιαύτη ἦν. «Βασιλεὺσ Ἀντίοχοσ τῇ γερουσίᾳ τῶν Ἰουδαίων καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ Ἰουδαίοισ χαίρειν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 11:27)
  • αὕτη ἡ Ἀλεξάνδρου ἐπιστολὴ συνέτριβέ μου τὴν διάνοιαν· (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 56:2)
  • ὅτε Ἀλέξανδροσ τὴν ἐν Ἰσσῷ μάχην ἀγωνιεῖσθαι ἔμελλεν, ὡσ Εὐμένησ ὁ Καρδιανὸσ ἐν τῇ πρὸσ Ἀντίπατρον ἐπιστολῇ λέγει, ἑώθεν εἰσελθὼν εἰσ τὴν σκηνὴν αὐτοῦ ὁ Ἡφαιστίων, εἴτ̓ ἐπιλαθόμενοσ εῖτ̓ ἐκταραχθεὶσ ὥσπερ ἐγὼ εἴτε καὶ θεοῦ τινοσ τοῦτο καταναγκάσαντοσ, ταὐτὸν ἐμοὶ ἔφη, Ὑγίαινε, βασιλεῦ, καιρὸσ ἤδη παρατάττεσθαι. (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 17:1)
  • τί σοι δοκεῖ ἡ ἐπιστολή, ὦ Χελιδόνιον; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. secretary

  2. a vice-admiral

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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