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ἰσότιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰσότιμος ἰσότιμον

Structure: ἰσοτιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: timh/

Sense

  1. held in equal honour, having the same privileges

Examples

  • ^ φημὶ τοίνυν δεινὰ ποιεῖν ἐνίουσ ἡμῶν, οἷσ οὐκ ἀπόχρη θεοὺσ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων αὐτοῖσ γεγενῆσθαι, ἀλλ’, εἰ μὴ καὶ τοὺσ ἀκολούθουσ καὶ θεράποντασ αὐτῶν ἰσοτίμουσ ἡμῖν ἀποφανοῦσιν, οὐδὲν μέγα οὐδὲ νεανικὸν οἰόνται εἰργάσθαι. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 1:7)
  • τῶν κατὰ τὰσ ὁδοὺσ συναντώντων τοὺσ μὲν γνωρίμουσ καὶ ἰσοτίμουσ φιλοῦσι προσιόντεσ, τοῖσ δὲ ταπεινοτέροισ παραβάλλουσι τὴν γνάθον καὶ δέχονται ταύτῃ τὸ φίλημα· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 3 40:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ Σέλευκοσ ὁ Νικάτωρ ἐν αἷσ ἔκτισεν πόλεσιν ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ καὶ τῇ κάτω Συρίᾳ καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ μητροπόλει Ἀντιοχείᾳ πολιτείασ αὐτοὺσ ἠξίωσεν καὶ τοῖσ ἐνοικισθεῖσιν ἰσοτίμουσ ἀπέφηνεν Μακεδόσιν καὶ Ἕλλησιν, ὡσ τὴν πολιτείαν ταύτην ἔτι καὶ νῦν διαμένειν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 139:2)

Synonyms

  1. held in equal honour

Related

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

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