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κατόπτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατόπτης κατόπτου

Structure: κατοπτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: o)/yomai, fut. of o(ra/w

Sense

  1. a spy, scout
  2. an overseer

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κατόπτης κατόπτᾱ κατόπται
Genitive κατόπτου κατόπταιν κατοπτῶν
Dative κατόπτῃ κατόπταιν κατόπταις
Accusative κατόπτην κατόπτᾱ κατόπτᾱς
Vocative κατόπτα κατόπτᾱ κατόπται

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

  • ὦ Ζεῦ διόπτα καὶ κατόπτα πανταχῇ, ἐνσκευάσασθαί μ’ οἱο͂ν ἀθλιώτατον. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:33)
  • λαβών νιν, ἡνίκ’ ἂν εὖ τυρῷ καὶ ἐλαίῳ πάντα πυκασθῇ, κρίβανον ἐσ θερμὸν κρέμασον κἄπειτα κατόπτα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 113 3:3)
  • ἐπεγένετο δὲ καὶ ἄλλοσ ὄχλοσ συχνὸσ, καὶ γάρ τισ καὶ διάδοσισ ἔτυχεν ἔξω πυλῶν οὖσα καὶ πάντ’ ἦν κάτοπτα ἀπὸ τῆσ γεφύρασ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:6)

Synonyms

  1. a spy

  2. an overseer

Related

Similar forms

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

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