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καταφρονητής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταφρονητής καταφρονητοῦ

Structure: καταφρονητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from katafrone/w

Sense

  1. a despiser

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

  • ἴδετε, οἱ καταφρονηταί, καὶ ἐπιβλέψατε καὶ θαυμάσατε θαυμάσια καὶ ἀφανίσθητε, διότι ἔργον ἐγὼ ἐργάζομαι ἐν ταῖσ ἡμέραισ ὑμῶν, ὃ οὐ μὴ πιστεύσητε, ἐάν τισ ἐκδιηγῆται. (Septuagint, Prophetia Habacuc 1:5)
  • οἱ προφῆται αὐτῆσ πνευματοφόροι, ἄνδρεσ καταφρονηταί. ἱερεῖσ αὐτῆσ βεβηλοῦσι τὰ ἅγια καὶ ἀσεβοῦσι νόμον. (Septuagint, Prophetia Sophoniae 3:4)
  • λόγων καὶ ἀνθρώπων ἢ καταφρονηταί. (Plutarch, Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus, chapter, section 13 5:1)
  • τοὺσ μὲν οὖν Τιγυρίουσ ὑποστράτηγοσ αὐτοῦ Λαβιηνὸσ ἐνίκησε, τοὺσ δὲ ἄλλουσ ὁ Καῖσαρ, καὶ Τρικούρουσ ἀμύνοντασ σφίσιν, ἔπειτα τοὺσ μετ’ Ἀριοουίστου Γερμανούσ, οἳ καὶ τὰ μεγέθη μείζουσ τῶν μεγίστων ὑπῆρχον καὶ τὸ ἦθοσ ἄγριοι καὶ τὴν τόλμαν θρασύτατοι, καὶ θανάτου καταφρονηταὶ δι’ ἐλπίδα ἀναβιώσεωσ, καὶ κρύοσ ὁμοίωσ ἔφερον θάλπει, καὶ πόᾳ ἐχρῶντο παρὰ τὰσ ἀπορίασ τροφῇ, καὶ ὁ ἵπποσ ξύλοισ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 3:3)
  • Καταφρονηταὶ δὲ πλούτου, καὶ θαυμάσιον αὐτοῖσ τὸ κοινωνικόν, οὐδὲ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν κτήσει τινὰ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ὑπερέχοντα· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 160:1)

Synonyms

  1. a despiser

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

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