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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

  • Ῥωμαίουσ δὲ τό τε στόμα ἄφνω γενόμενον καὶ ὁ στόλοσ ἐπὶ τῷ στόματι ἐσ τοσόνδε κατέπληξεν ὡσ τοὺσ Καρχηδονίουσ, εἰ αὐτίκα ταῖσ ναυσὶ ταῖσ Ῥωμαίων ἐπέθεντο, ἠμελημέναισ τε ὡσ ἐν τειχομαχίᾳ, καὶ οὐδενὸσ ναύτου παρόντοσ οὐδ’ ἐρέτου, ὅλου ἂν τοῦ ναυστάθμου κρατῆσαι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 18 6:1)

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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