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κωμαστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωμαστής κωμαστοῦ

Structure: κωμαστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: kwma/zw

Sense

  1. a reveller
  2. the jolly

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

  • ἐξαίφνησ δὲ κωμαστὰσ ἥκειν παμπόλλουσ ἐπὶ τὰσ θύρασ, καὶ ἐπιτυχόντασ ἀνεῳγμέναισ ἐξιόντοσ τινὸσ εἰσ τὸ ἄντικρυσ πορεύεσθαι παρὰ σφᾶσ καὶ κατακλίνεσθαι, καὶ θορύβου μεστὰ πάντα εἶναι, καὶ οὐκέτι ἐν κόσμῳ οὐδενὶ ἀναγκάζεσθαι πίνειν πάμπολυν οἶνον. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 543:2)
  • οἱ μὲν δὴ οὕτω λέγουσιν αὐτοὺσ ἀποθανεῖν, οἱ δὲ καὶ ὡσ κωμαστὰσ εἰσελθόντασ τοὺσ ἀμφὶ Μέλωνα ἀποκτεῖναι τοὺσ πολεμάρχουσ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 9:1)
  • ὥσπερ Ὅμηροσ ἔφη τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν αὐτὴν ἅμα σπένδειν τε καὶ τελεῖν ἕκαστα, αὐτὸσ ὢν ὁμόσπονδόσ τε καὶ ὁ τὰσ σπονδὰσ δεχόμενοσ, ἐπὶ κῶμόν τε ἀφικνούμενοσ καὶ καλῶν ὡσ αὑτὸν κωμαστὰσ, οἳ χορεύοντεσ ὑπ’ αὐτῷ τὴν ἀδεᾶ κακῶν χορείαν, ἅμα τοῖσ στεφάνοισ τὴν ἀγαθὴν εὐθυμίαν οἴκαδε εἰσενεγκάμενοι, τὴν δευτέραν ἀποδιδόασιν ἐπικαλεσάμενοι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:7)

Synonyms

  1. a reveller

Related

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

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