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ἐρέτης?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: eretēs

Principal Part: ἐρέτης ἐρέτου

Structure: ἐρετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: ἐρέσσω

Sense

  1. a rower
  2. oars

Declension

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

  • εἶτα δή μου ἐκπλεῖν προαιρουμένου ξένια καὶ δῶρα πολλὰ πέμψας - μόνος δὲ σὺν τῷ Ξενοφῶντι ἔτυχον ἐπιδημῶν, τὸν πατέρα καὶ τοὺς ἐμοὺς εἰς Ἄμαστριν προεκπεπομφώς - ὑπισχνεῖται καὶ πλοῖον αὐτὸς παρέξειν καὶ ἐρέτας τοὺς ἀπάξοντας. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 56:1)
  • Ἀλέξανδρος γάρ, ἐπειδή οἱ παρεσκεύαστο τὸ ναυτικὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ Ὑδάσπεω τῇσιν ὄχθῃσιν, ἐπιλεγόμενος ὅσοι τε Φοίνικες καὶ ὅσοι Κύπριοι καὶ Αἰγύπτιοι εἵποντο ἐν τῇ ἄνω στρατηλασίῃ, ἐκ τούτων ἐπλήρου τὰς νέας, ὑπηρεσίας τε αὐτῇσι καὶ ἐρέτας ἐπιλεγόμενος ὅσοι τῶν θαλασσίων ἔργων δαήμονες. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 18 1:1)
  • δεξιότης τε λόγου Φαίακος Μουσῶν ἐρέτας ἐπὶ σέλματα πέμπει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 8 1:2)
  • "γενομένης δὲ ἀναπείρας ἐδέξατο ἐρέτας πλείους τῶν τετρακισχιλίων, εἰς δὲ τὰς ὑπηρεσίας τετρακοσίους : (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 378)
  • οὗ τοὺς ἐκπαθῶς μεταλαμβάνοντας οὐ κακῶς ὁ Χαλκοῦς ἐπικαλούμενος Διονύσιος ἐν τοῖς ἐλεγείοις κυλίκων ἐρέτας ὀνομάζων ἔφη: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 61 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a rower

  2. oars

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

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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