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ἑστιάτωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑστιάτωρ ἑστιάτορος

Structure: ἑστιατωρ (Stem)

Etym.: from e(stia/w

Sense

  1. one who gives a banquet, a host, the citizen whose turn it was to give a dinner to his tribe

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

  • τοὺσ μὲν οὖν ἐκείνησ ἑστιάτορασ ὀρχεῖσθαί τε καὶ κυλίεσθαι προπίπτοντασ ἐν τῷ μέσῳ, καὶ μάχεσθαι καὶ βοᾶν, οἱᾶ δὴ ποιοῦσιν οἱ μεθυσθέντεσ ὑπὸ οἴνου· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 64:1)
  • " εἰ μὲν οὖν ἡμεῖσ μὲν φύλακασ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ποιοῦμεν ἥκιστα κακούργουσ τῆσ πόλεωσ, ὁ δ’ ἐκεῖνο λέγων γεωργούσ τινασ καὶ ὥσπερ ἐν πανηγύρει ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐν πόλει ἑστιάτορασ εὐδαίμονασ, ἄλλο ἄν τι ἢ πόλιν λέγοι. (Plato, Republic, book 4 16:3)

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

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