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ἱεροφάντης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱεροφάντης

Structure: ἱεροφαντ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: fai/nw

Sense

  1. a hierophant, one who teaches the rites of sacrifice and worship, Pontifex Maximus

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

  • ζήτησισ δὴ μετὰ τοῦτο πολλὴ ἐκ πάντων ἐγίνετο, καὶ σὺν χρόνῳ μήνυσισ ἀποδίδοται τοῖσ ἱεροφάνταισ, ὅτι τῶν παρθένων μία τῶν φυλαττουσῶν τὸ ἱερὸν πῦρ, Ὀπιμία ὄνομα αὐτῇ, τὴν παρθενίαν ἀφαιρεθεῖσα μιαίνει τὰ ἱερά. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 89 7:2)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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