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ἑρμηνεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑρμηνεύς ἑρμηνέως

Structure: ἑρμηνευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: E(rmh=s, the messenger of the gods

Sense

  1. an interpreter, a dragoman
  2. an interpreter, expounder

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἑρμηνεύς ἑρμηνή ἑρμηνής
Genitive ἑρμηνέως ἑρμηνέοιν ἑρμηνέων
Dative ἑρμηνεί ἑρμηνέοιν ἑρμηνεῦσιν*
Accusative ἑρμηνέα ἑρμηνή ἑρμηνέᾱς
Vocative ἑρμηνεύ ἑρμηνή ἑρμηνής

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

  • καὶ τὸν Κῦρον ἀκούσαντα κελεῦσαι τοὺσ ἑρμηνέασ ἐπειρέσθαι τὸν Κροῖσον τίνα τοῦτον ἐπικαλέοιτο, καὶ τοὺσ προσελθόντασ ἐπειρωτᾶν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 86 5:1)
  • τούτου δὲ αἴτιον ὅτι οὐκ εἰσ ἑτέρουσ ὁρῶν ἑρμηνέασ οὕτω λαμβάνει τὸ δίκαιον, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸσ ἔχων ἐκ παιδείασ τῶν ὡσ ἀληθῶσ καλῶν καὶ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐπιστήμην τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν νόμων ἐμπειρίαν προσειληφὼσ, ὥστε μή τι τῶν γεγραμμένων διαφεύγειν αὐτὸν, οὕτωσ τὰσ κρίσεισ ποιεῖται περὶ πάντων. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:5)

Synonyms

  1. an interpreter

  2. an interpreter

Related

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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