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μεγαλήτωρ

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεγαλήτωρ μεγαλήτορος

Structure: μεγαλητορος (Stem)

Etym.: h)=tor

Sense

  1. great-hearted, heroic

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

  • ἀλλ’ οὐ πεῖθ’ Ἄρεοσ μεγαλήτορα θυμόν, ἀλλὰ μέγα ἰάχων φλογὶ εἴκελά τ’ ἔγχεα πάλλων καρπαλίμωσ ἐπόρουσε βίῃ Ἡρακληείῃ κακτάμεναι μεμαώσ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 43:2)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ βούλευσα κατὰ μεγαλήτορα θυμόν· (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 32 5:2)
  • οὐδ’ ἄρ’ Ὀδυσσῆα μεγαλήτορα ἔνδον ἔτετμεν, ἀλλ’ ὅ γ’ ἐπ’ ἀκτῆσ κλαῖε καθήμενοσ, ἔνθα πάροσ περ, δάκρυσι καὶ στοναχῇσι καὶ ἄλγεσι θυμὸν ἐρέχθων. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 6:18)
  • ἡ δ’ ἐπ’ Ὀδυσσῆα μεγαλήτορα πότνια νύμφη ἠί’, ἐπεὶ δὴ Ζηνὸσ ἐπέκλυεν ἀγγελιάων. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 14:2)
  • καὶ τότ’ Ὀδυσσῆοσ λύτο γούνατα καὶ φίλον ἦτορ, ὀχθήσασ δ’ ἄρα εἶπε πρὸσ ὃν μεγαλήτορα θυμόν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 29:5)

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

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