Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

γελαστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: γελαστής

Structure: γελαστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from gela/w

Sense

  1. a laugher, sneerer

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative γελαστής γελαστᾱ́ γελασταί
Genitive γελαστοῦ γελασταῖν γελαστῶν
Dative γελαστῇ γελασταῖν γελασταῖς
Accusative γελαστήν γελαστᾱ́ γελαστᾱ́ς
Vocative γελαστά γελαστᾱ́ γελασταί

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

  • οὐχ ὡσ γελαστήσ, Οἰδίπουσ, ἐλήλυθα, οὐδ’ ὡσ ὀνειδιῶν τι τῶν πάροσ κακῶν. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 1:5)
  • "Ζεῦ πάτερ ἠδ’ ἄλλοι μάκαρεσ θεοὶ αἰὲν ἐόντεσ, δεῦθ’, ἵνα ἔργα γελαστὰ καὶ οὐκ ἐπιεικτὰ ἴδησθε, ὡσ ἐμὲ χωλὸν ἐόντα Διὸσ θυγάτηρ Ἀφροδίτη αἰὲν ἀτιμάζει, φιλέει δ’ ἀίδηλον Ἄρηα, οὕνεχ’ ὁ μὲν καλόσ τε καὶ ἀρτίποσ, αὐτὰρ ἐγώ γε ἠπεδανὸσ γενόμην. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 33:1)

Synonyms

  1. a laugher

Similar forms

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION