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εὑρετής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὑρετής εὑρετοῦ

Structure: εὑρετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: eu(rei=n

Sense

  1. an inventor, discoverer

Declension

First 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

  • πᾶν τὸ ζητούμενον ἁλωτόν, ἐκφεύγει δὲ τἀμελούμενον καὶ πάλιν αὖ τὰ πράγματα διαιρῶν τὰ μὲν διδακτὰ μανθάνω, τὰ δ’ εὑρετὰ ζητῶ, τὰ δ’ εὐκτὰ παρὰ θεῶν ᾐτησάμην τί γὰρ εὑρετὸν ἢ τί μαθητόν ἐστιν ἀνθρώποισ, εἰ πάντα περαίνεται κατὰ τύχην; (Plutarch, De fortuna, chapter, section 2 6:1)
  • οὔτε γὰρ εὑρετὰ ἀνθρώποισ αὐτὰ ἐνόμιζεν εἶναι οὔτε χαρίζεσθαι θεοῖσ ἂν ἡγεῖτο τὸν ζητοῦντα ἃ ἐκεῖνοι σαφηνίσαι οὐκ ἐβουλήθησαν. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 7 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. an inventor

Related

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

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