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κωπηλάτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωπηλάτης κωπηλάτου

Structure: κωπηλατ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: e)lau/nw

Sense

  1. a rower

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κωπηλάτης κωπηλάτᾱ κωπηλάται
Genitive κωπηλάτου κωπηλάταιν κωπηλατῶν
Dative κωπηλάτῃ κωπηλάταιν κωπηλάταις
Accusative κωπηλάτην κωπηλάτᾱ κωπηλάτᾱς
Vocative κωπηλάτα κωπηλάτᾱ κωπηλάται

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

  • "οὔτε τὸν ἱερὸν καλούμενον πουλύπουν οὔτε τὸν κωπηλάτην πουλύπουν νόμιμον ἦν θηρεύειν, ἀλλ’ ἀπεῖπον τούτων τε καὶ τῆσ θαλαττίασ χελώνησ μὴ ἅπτεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1031)
  • συμβαίνειν δέ ποτε καὶ τιτρώσκεσθαι διὰ τοῦ σκαφιδίου τὸν κωπηλάτην διὰ τὸ μέγεθοσ τοῦ ξίφουσ τῶν γαλεωτῶν καὶ τὸ τὴν ἀκμὴν τοῦ ζῴου συαγρώδη εἶναι καὶ τὴν θήραν. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 32:11)
  • συμβαίνειν δέ ποτε καὶ τιτρώσκεσθαι διὰ τοῦ σκαφιδίου τὸν κωπηλάτην διὰ τὸ μέγεθοσ τοῦ ξίφουσ τῶν γαλεωτῶν καὶ τὸ τὴν ἀκμὴν τοῦ ζῴου συαγρώδη εἶναι καὶ τὴν θήραν. (Polybius, Histories, book 34, chapter 3 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. a rower

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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