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γυμναστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: γυμναστής

Structure: γυμναστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: gumna/zw

Sense

  1. a trainer of professional athletes

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative γυμναστής γυμναστᾱ́ γυμνασταί
Genitive γυμναστοῦ γυμνασταῖν γυμναστῶν
Dative γυμναστῇ γυμνασταῖν γυμνασταῖς
Accusative γυμναστήν γυμναστᾱ́ γυμναστᾱ́ς
Vocative γυμναστά γυμναστᾱ́ γυμνασταί

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

  • ἔτι δὲ αἱ μὲν ῥᾳδιουργίαι καὶ ἐκ τοῦ παραχρῆμα ἡδοναὶ οὔτε σώματι εὐεξίαν ἱκαναί εἰσιν ἐνεργάζεσθαι, ὥσ φασιν οἱ γυμνασταί, οὔτε ψυχῇ ἐπιστήμην ἀξιόλογον οὐδεμίαν ἐμποιοῦσιν, αἱ δὲ διὰ καρτερίασ ἐπιμέλειαι τῶν καλῶν τε κἀγαθῶν ἔργων ἐξικνεῖσθαι ποιοῦσιν, ὥσ φασιν οἱ ἀγαθοὶ ἄνδρεσ. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 21:1)
  • οἱο͂ν οἱ ἔμποροι καὶ γεωργοὶ καὶ σιτουργοὶ πάντεσ, καὶ πρὸσ τούτοισ γυμνασταὶ καὶ τὸ τῶν ἰατρῶν γένοσ, οἶσθ’ ὅτι τοῖσ περὶ τὰ ἀνθρώπινα νομεῦσιν, οὓσ πολιτικοὺσ ἐκαλέσαμεν, παντάπασι τῷ λόγῳ διαμάχοιντ’ ἂν οὗτοι σύμπαντεσ, ὡσ σφεῖσ τῆσ τροφῆσ ἐπιμελοῦνται τῆσ ἀνθρωπίνησ, οὐ μόνον ἀγελαίων ἀνθρώπων ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆσ τῶν ἀρχόντων αὐτῶν; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 65:5)
  • καὶ συνῆλθον οἵ τε ἰατροὶ καὶ γυμνασταὶ, καὶ οὔτε βοηθεῖν εἶχον οὔτε ἐγνώριζον τὴν ποικιλίαν τῆσ νόσου. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 16:10)
  • τί δὲ ἐροῦσι σύμπαντεσ οἱ γυμνασταὶ, δυοῖν καὶ τριῶν λογίων οὐχ ἡττᾶσθαι σφῶν πᾶσαν τὴν ἐπιστήμην, εἴπερ ἕν γε τοῦτ’ ἐπίστανται βραχὺ σωφρονεῖν; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 9:7)

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

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