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ἰδιώτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰδιώτης ἰδιώτου

Structure: ἰδιωτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: i)/dios

Sense

  1. a private person, one not engaged in public affairs
  2. (adjectival use) private, homely
  3. commoner, plebeian
  4. uneducated person, layman, amateur
  5. one who is not in the know, an outsider
  6. an ignorant person, idiot
  7. one who is awkward, clumsy
  8. (in the plural) one's countrymen

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

  • τοῦτο δέ, οὑτωσὶ μὲν ἁπλῶσ ἀκοῦσαι, πάνυ εὔλογον ἂν δόξειεν, καὶ μάλιστα ἰδιώτῃ καὶ ἀπείρῳ ἰατρικῆσ· (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 26:4)
  • συμβούλῳ δὲ δὴ περὶ πολέμου καὶ εἰρήνησ λέγοντι καὶ ἰδιώτῃ τὸν περὶ ψυχῆσ τρέχοντι κίνδυνον ἐν δικασταῖσ τὰ κομψὰ καὶ θεατρικὰ καὶ μειρακιώδη ταῦτα οὐκ οἶδα ἥντινα δύναιτο ἂν παρασχεῖν ὠφέλειαν, μᾶλλον δὲ οἶδα ὅτι καὶ βλάβησ ἂν αἴτια γένοιτο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 12 2:2)
  • βραχύσ γε μὴν οὗτοσ, ὡσ μὲν ἰδιώτῃ δηλῶσαι βουλομένῳ τὰ πράγματα ἀποχρῶν, ὡσ δὲ ῥήτορι περιουσίαν δυνάμεωσ ἐνδείξασθαι ζητοῦντι οὐχ ἱκανόσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 52)
  • ῥᾷστον μὲν γάρ ἐστιν ὀφθῆναι καὶ παντὶ ὁμοίωσ ἰδιώτῃ τε καὶ τεχνίτῃ φανερόν, χαλεπώτατον δὲ λόγῳ δηλωθῆναι καὶ οὐδὲ τοῖσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 10 3:1)
  • τοσαύτασ διαφορὰσ ἔχουσα καὶ ἀνομοιότητασ ἡ λέξισ οὐδὲ τὸ πρέπον ἑκάστῃ καὶ οἰκεῖον ἀποδίδωσιν οἱο͂ν λέγω βασιλεῖ τὸν ὄγκον ῥήτορι τὴν δεινότητα γυναικὶ τὸ ἁπλοῦν ἰδιώτῃ τὸ πεζὸν ἀγοραίῳ τὸ φορτικόν· (Plutarch, Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium, section 1 10:1)

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