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ἐρέτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐρέτης ἐρέτου

Structure: ἐρετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: e)re/ssw

Sense

  1. a rower
  2. oars

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐρέτης ἐρέτᾱ ἐρέται
Genitive ἐρέτου ἐρέταιν ἐρετῶν
Dative ἐρέτῃ ἐρέταιν ἐρέταις
Accusative ἐρέτην ἐρέτᾱ ἐρέτᾱς
Vocative ἐρέτα ἐρέτᾱ ἐρέται

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

  • "διὰ τί ἄλυποι ἀλλήλοισ εἰσὶν οἱ ἐρέται, · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 425)
  • "ὡσ δ’ ἐντὸσ ἦν καὶ τὰσ κώπασ ἔλαβον οἱ ἐρέται, Χρυσόγονοσ μὲν ηὔλει τὸ τριηρικὸν ἐνδεδυκὼσ τὴν Πυθικὴν στολήν, Καλλιππίδησ δ’ ὁ τραγῳδὸσ ἐκέλευε τὴν ἐπὶ τῆσ σκηνῆσ στολὴν ἠμφιεσμένοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 47 3:21)
  • καί τινεσ οἶνον ἄγοντεσ ἐν εἰρεσίᾳ Διονύσου συμποσίου ναῦται καὶ κυλίκων ἐρέται μάρνανται περὶ τοῦδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 61 2:2)
  • Σουσισκάνησ, Πηγασταγὼν Αἰγυπτογενήσ, ὅ τε τῆσ ἱερᾶσ Μέμφιδοσ ἄρχων μέγασ Ἀρσάμησ, τάσ τ’ ὠγυγίουσ Θήβασ ἐφέπων Ἀριόμαρδοσ, καὶ ἑλειοβάται ναῶν ἐρέται δεινοὶ πλῆθόσ τ’ ἀνάριθμοι. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, anapests9)
  • ἐρέται δὲ μέγ’ ἰάχον· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 9:26)

Synonyms

  1. a rower

  2. oars

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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