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μερίτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μερίτης μερίτου

Structure: μεριτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: meri/s

Sense

  1. a partaker in

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

  • θαυμάζω δ’ εἴ τισ τὸ μὲν τῆσ νίκησ καὶ τῶν κατορθωμάτων κοινωνεῖν τὴν πόλιν αἰσχρὸν ἡγεῖται, τὸ δὲ τὴν τῶν ἀτυχημάτων καὶ τῆσ ἥττησ τάξιν λαβεῖν ἔντιμον νομίζει, καὶ σὺν ἄλλοισ μὲν κρατῶν αἰσχύνεται, κληρονομῶν δὲ τῆσ ἑτέρων συμφορᾶσ καλοῦ καὶ λαμπροῦ σχήματοσ ἡγεῖται μερίτησ ἔσεσθαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 17:9)
  • τῶν δὲ Μεσσηνίων ἐπὶ τούτοισ ἀγανακτούντων καὶ διαπρεσβευομένων πρὸσ τὸν Δωρίμαχον, τὰσ μὲν ἀρχὰσ παρήκουε, βουλόμενοσ τὰ μὲν ὠφελεῖν τοὺσ ὑπ’ αὐτὸν ταττομένουσ, τὰ δ’ αὐτὸσ ὠφελεῖσθαι, μερίτησ γινόμενοσ τῶν λαμβανομένων. (Polybius, Histories, book 4, chapter 3 11:1)
  • εἶχε δὲ καθ’ ὅλην τὴν Πελοπόννησον ἱεροσύλουσ, ὁδοιδόκουσ, φονέασ, οἷσ μερίτησ γινόμενοσ τῶν ἐκ τῆσ ῥᾳδιουργίασ λυσιτελῶν ὁρμητήριον καὶ καταφυγὴν παρείχετο τούτοισ τὴν Σπάρτην. (Polybius, Histories, book 13, chapter 8 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a partaker in

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

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