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κωλυτής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωλυτής κωλυτοῦ

Structure: κωλυτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: kwlu/w

Sense

  1. a hinderer

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

  • καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα συναγαγόντεσ τὸν δῆμον ἔλεγον, ὅτι τὰσ μὲν εἰσ ἑαυτοὺσ ὕβρεισ ἀφείκασι χαρισάμενοι πολλοῖσ καὶ ἀγαθοῖσ ἀνδράσι δεομένοισ, οἷσ οὐκ ἦν ὅσιον ἀντιλέγειν, ὧν δὲ ὁ δῆμοσ ἠδικεῖτο κωλυταί τε καὶ τιμωροὶ ἔσεσθαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 35 7:1)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐρυμάτων ἑστῶτεσ ἰσορρόπου θεαταὶ ἀγῶνοσ καὶ θαμινὰ ἑκατέρωσε μεταπίπτοντοσ τῷ μὲν κατορθοῦντι τῶν σφετέρων ἐπικελεύσει τε καὶ παιανισμῷ πολλὴν ἐποίουν τὴν εἰσ τὸ εὔψυχον ἐπίδοσιν, τῷ δὲ κάμνοντι καὶ διωκομένῳ δεήσεισ τε καὶ οἰμωγὰσ προϊέμενοι κωλυταὶ τοῦ εἰσ τέλοσ ἀνάνδρου ἐγίνοντο· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 41 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a hinderer

Related

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

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