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καθαρτής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καθαρτής καθαρτοῦ

Structure: καθαρτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: kaqai/rw

Sense

  1. a cleanser, purifier

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

  • σοῦ γὰρ ἔρχομαι δίκῃ καθαρτὴσ πρὸσ θεῶν ὡρμημένοσ· (Sophocles, episode 3:8)
  • καὶ ἦν Εὐρυσθεὺσ μέν, ὃσ ἦν, οὔτε Ἄργουσ οὔτε Μυκηνῶν βασιλεύσ, ὅσ γ’ οὐδ’ αὐτὸσ ἑαυτοῦ, ὁ δ’ Ἡρακλῆσ ἁπάσησ γῆσ καὶ θαλάττησ ἄρχων καὶ ἡγεμὼν ἦν, καθαρτὴσ ἀδικίασ καὶ ἀνομίασ, εἰσαγωγεὺσ δὲ δικαιοσύνησ καὶ ὁσιότητοσ· (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 32:1)

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

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