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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

  • πόσοι δή ποτ’ εἰσὶν οἱ κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν τὰσ ἐγκυκλίουσ λῃτουργίασ λῃτουργοῦντεσ, χορηγοὶ καὶ γυμνασίαρχοι καὶ ἑστιάτορεσ; (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 29:7)

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

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