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κλητήρ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κλητήρ κλητῆρος

Structure: κλητηρ (Stem)

Etym.: kale/w

Sense

  1. one who calls, a summoner, a witness who gave evidence that the legal summons had been served, licet antestari)

Declension

Third 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

  • εἰ δὲ μή, τάχα κλητῆρεσ ἐπιλείψουσι τοὺσ καλουμένουσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode, lyric 4:28)
  • κλητῆρεσ, ὁ Α, βότρυσ, γογγυλίδεσ, ἄπιοι, μῆλα, Β. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 46 1:7)
  • οὕτω δὲ φανερῶσ τὰ ψευδῆ μεμαρτυρήκασιν, ὥστε ὃν πάντων ὑμῶν εἰδότων οὑτοσὶ δίκην λαχὼν ἄκοντα ἠνάγκασε ποιήσασθαι αὑτόν, τοῦτον οὗτοι, ὥσπερ κλητῆρεσ, δύο μόνοι ὄντεσ μαρτυροῦσιν δεκάτην ὑπὲρ τούτου ἑστιᾶσαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 34:3)
  • Μάρτυρεσ ὅτι μὲν τοίνυν προσεκλήθη ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ, οἱ κλητῆρέσ μοι μεμαρτυρήκασιν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 35:2)

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

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