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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)
  • ἀόριστοι γὰρ αἱ τῶν τυράννων ἐπιθυμίαι κατὰ τὸ εἰκόσ, οἱᾶ δὴ μήτε νόμον ἔχουσαι κωλυτὴν μήτε φόβον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 41 8:1)
  • τῶν μὲν οὖν ἥδε ἡ πόλισ ἄρξασα καὶ πάντα τὸν πόλεμον διαπολεμήσασα ἐλέγετο, τῶν δ’ οἱ τῆσ Ἀτλαντίδοσ νήσου βασιλῆσ, ἣν δὴ Λιβύησ καὶ Ἀσίασ μείζω νῆσον οὖσαν ἔφαμεν εἶναί ποτε, νῦν δὲ ὑπὸ σεισμῶν δῦσαν ἄπορον πηλὸν τοῖσ ἐνθένδε ἐκπλέουσιν ἐπὶ τὸ πᾶν πέλαγοσ, ὥστε μηκέτι πορεύεσθαι, κωλυτὴν παρασχεῖν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 17:3)
  • 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)
  • εἰ δ’ ἔδει τινὰ τούτων κωλυτὴν φανῆναι, τίν’ ἄλλον ἢ τὸν Ἀθηναίων δῆμον προσῆκε γενέσθαι; (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 97:2)
  • καὶ παραγενόμενοσ πρὸσ τὸν βασιλέα ἔπειθεν αὐτὸν ἀπολύειν τοὺσ Ἑβραίουσ ἐπὶ τὸ Σιναῖον ὄροσ ἐκεῖ θύσοντασ τῷ θεῷ, τοῦτο γὰρ αὐτὸν κεκελευκέναι, καὶ μηδὲν ἀντιπράττειν οἷσ ἐκεῖνοσ βούλεται, τὴν δ’ εὐμένειαν αὐτοῦ περὶ παντὸσ ποιούμενον συγχωρεῖν αὐτοῖσ τὴν ἔξοδον, μὴ καὶ λάθῃ τούτων κωλυτὴσ γενόμενοσ αὑτὸν αἰτιάσασθαι πάσχων ὅσα παθεῖν εἰκὸσ τὸν ἀντιπράττοντα θεοῦ προστάγμασι· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 363:1)

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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