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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

  • κἂν ἰδιώτην με ποίησον, ὦ Μοῖρα, τῶν πενήτων ἕνα, κἂν δοῦλον ἀντὶ τοῦ πάλαι βασιλέωσ· (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 13:4)
  • σκέψασθε δὲ ἤδη ὅντινα ὄντα καὶ ἀποκηρύττειν καὶ οὐ δή που τοῦτό φημι, ὡσ τότε μὲν ἰδιώτην, νῦν δὲ ἰατρόν οὐδὲν γὰρ ἂν πρόσ τοῦτο ἡ τέχνη συναγωνίσαιτο· (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 13:1)
  • ὑποτίθεται δὲ ἑκάτεροσ ἰδιώτην ἄνδρα καὶ ἀπράγμονα καὶ νέον παρὰ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ προαίρεσίν τε καὶ φύσιν ἠναγκασμένον ἐν δικαστηρίῳ λέγειν, ὁ μὲν Λυσίασ ἐν τῷ πρὸσ Ἀρχεβιάδην λόγῳ τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 101)
  • τίσ ἂν οὖν οὐκ ἂν ὁμολογήσειε τὸν μὲν Λυσίου νέον καὶ ἰδιώτην καὶ ἀπράγμονα ἀρχέτυπόν τινα εἶναι τῆσ ἀληθείασ διαφέροντα ἐκείνησ οὐδ’ ὁτιοῦν, τὸν ἕτερον δὲ ἀπόγραφόν τινα καὶ οὐ λανθάνοντα ὅτι πέπλασται ῥητορικῇ τέχνῃ; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 111)
  • κόσμον τινὰ προσεῖναι τοῖσ λόγοισ ἐξήλλαττον τὸν ἰδιώτην καὶ κατέφευγον εἰσ τὴν ποιητικὴν φράσιν, μεταφοραῖσ τε πολλαῖσ χρώμενοι καὶ ὑπερβολαῖσ καὶ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ τροπικαῖσ ἰδέαισ, ὀνομάτων τε γλωττηματικῶν καὶ ξένων χρήσει καὶ τῶν οὐκ εἰωθότων σχηματισμῶν τῇ διαλλαγῇ καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ καινολογίᾳ καταπληττόμενοι τὸν ἰδιώτην. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 3 2:1)

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