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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἰδιώτης ἰδιώτᾱ ἰδιῶται
Genitive ἰδιώτου ἰδιώταιν ἰδιωτῶν
Dative ἰδιώτῃ ἰδιώταιν ἰδιώταις
Accusative ἰδιώτην ἰδιώτᾱ ἰδιώτᾱς
Vocative ἰδιῶτα ἰδιώτᾱ ἰδιῶται

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

  • ἰδιώτησ γὰρ εἶ, ὦ Χάρων, καὶ ἥκιστα ποιητικόσ· (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 4:6)
  • οὑτοσὶ γὰρ ὁ τρισκατάρατοσ ὁπόσα μὲν ἰδιώτησ ὢν ἔπραξε, παραλείψειν μοι δοκῶ· (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 26:4)
  • ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, ὅτι μὲν ἰδιώτησ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 11, chapter 12 1:4)
  • καὶ τὸ ἐπιλεγόμενον τούτῳ ἔτι μᾶλλον ἀκατάσκευον φαίνεται εἶναι καί, ὡσ ἂν ἰδιώτησ τισ εἰπεῖν δύναιτο, εἰρημένον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 7 1:2)
  • θάτερον δὲ τρανότερον καὶ οὐχ ὡσ ἂν ἰδιώτησ συνέθηκεν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 9 1:3)

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