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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

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

  • ἔλαβον χρῆσιν τῶν πέντε τοῦ Κυρίου ἐνεργημάτων, ἕκτον δὲ νοῦν αὐτοῖσ ἐδωρήσατο μερίζων καὶ τὸν ἕβδομον λόγον ἑρμηνέα τῶν ἐνεργημάτων αὐτοῦ]. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 17:5)
  • "βαρβάρουσ ἔχω, οὐχ ὁμογλώττουσ, καὶ ἑρμηνέων οὐ ῥᾴδιον εὐπορεῖν πρὸσ αὐτούσ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 64:5)
  • πολλοὶ δ’ ἐπιστέλλουσιν, ἑρμηνεὺσ δ’ ἐγώ, αἱ χεῖρεσ ἡ γλῶσσ’ ἡ ταλαίπωρόσ τε φρήν, κάρα τ’ ἐμὸν ξυρῆκεσ, ὅ τ’ ἐκεῖνον τεκών. (Euripides, episode 3:2)
  • οὔ, πρίν γ’ ἂν εἴπῃ τοὔποσ ἑρμηνεὺσ ὅδε, εἴτ’ ἔνδον εἴτ’ οὐκ ἔνδον ἀρχηγὸσ χθονόσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode16)
  • λέγε μόνον, σαφῆ δέ, ὦ Ἄπολλον, καὶ οὐ συνηγόρου καὶ αὐτὰ ἢ ἑρμηνέωσ δεόμενα; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 30:10)
  • ὁ δὲ ἑρμηνεὺσ ὁ σὺν Νεάρχῳ ἐκήρυσσε σῖτον δοῦναι τῇ στρατιῇ, εἰ σῴην ἐθέλουσιν ἔχειν τὴν πόλιν· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 28 5:1)
  • Κατὰ ταῦτα νομίζω τὸν ἐγκέφαλον δύναμιν πλείστην ἔχειν ἐν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ‧ οὗτοσ γὰρ ἡμῖν ἐστι τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἠέροσ γινομένων ἑρμηνεὺσ, ἢν ὑγιαίνων τυγχάνῃ‧ τὴν δὲ φρόνησιν αὐτῷ ὁ ἀὴρ παρέχεται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 16.1)
  • ὁ δὲ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἑρμηνεὺσ ἔφη καὶ τὸν Τισσαφέρνουσ ἀδελφὸν σὺν αὐτοῖσ ὁρᾶν καὶ γιγνώσκειν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 39:2)

Synonyms

  1. an interpreter

  2. an interpreter

Related

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

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