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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

  • ἐάν τισ ἀνδράποδον ἀποδῶται κάμνον φθόῃ ἢ λιθῶν ἢ στραγγουριῶν ἢ τῇ καλουμένῃ ἱερᾷ νόσῳ ἢ καὶ ἑτέρῳ τινὶ ἀδήλῳ τοῖσ πολλοῖσ νοσήματι μακρῷ καὶ δυσιάτῳ κατὰ τὸ σῶμα ἢ κατὰ τὴν διάνοιαν, ἐὰν μὲν ἰατρῷ τισ ἢ γυμναστῇ, μὴ ἀναγωγῆσ ἔστω τούτῳ πρὸσ τὸν τοιοῦτον τυγχάνειν, μηδ’ ἐὰν τἀληθέσ τισ προειπὼν ἀποδῶταί τῳ· (Plato, Laws, book 11 20:2)
  • αὕτη προαποθανόντοσ αὐτῇ τοῦ ἀνδρόσ, ἐξεικάσασα αὑτὴν τὰ πάντα ἀνδρὶ γυμναστῇ, ἤγαγεν ἐσ Ὀλυμπίαν τὸν υἱὸν μαχούμενον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 6 14:1)
  • μὴ τοίνυν κατὰ τὸν κυβερνήτην θῇσ αὐτὸν, ὦ χρηστὲ, τὸν εἰσ τὴν Ὀλυμπίαν κομίζοντα, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον φῶμεν αὐτὸν ἐοικέναι τῷ γυμναστῇ, ὃσ πάλαι παρασκευάσασ ἐκεῖσε τὸν ἀθλητὴν, εἶτα ἐξαγαγὼν νικῶντα ἐπανήγαγεν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 56:1)

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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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