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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

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 μέντοι τοῦ ἄλλου πλήθουσ, οἱο͂ν γυμναστάσ τινασ ἢ κόλακασ, ἰδιώτασ καὶ μικροὺσ τὰσ γνώμασ καὶ ταπεινοὺσ αὐτόθεν ἀνθρώπουσ, οὔτε ἀποτρέπειν ἄξιον τῶν τοιούτων συνουσιῶν, οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν πεισθεῖεν, οὔτε μὴν αἰτιᾶσθαι καλῶσ ἔχει μὴ ἀπολειπομένουσ τῶν μισθοδοτῶν εἰ καὶ πάνυ πολλὰ ὑβρίζοιντο ὑπ’ αὐτῶν, ἐπιτήδειοι γὰρ καὶ οὐκ ἀνάξιοι τῆσ τοιαύτησ διατριβῆσ· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 4:4)
  • "ὡσ ἂν γυμναστὰσ τοῖσ νέοισιν ἔχοιμεν. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 172)
  • "ὡσ ἂν γυμναστὰσ τοῖσ νέοισιν ἔχοιμεν. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 172)
  • νικῶντοσ δὲ τοῦ Πεισιρόδου, τὸ ἔρυμα ἐν ᾧ τοὺσ γυμναστὰσ ἔχουσιν ἀπειλημμένουσ, τοῦτο ὑπερπηδῶσα ἡ Καλλιπάτειρα ἐγυμνώθη. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 6 15:1)

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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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