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μεσίτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεσίτης μεσίτου

Structure: μεσιτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: me/sos

Sense

  1. a mediator, umpire, arbitrator

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μεσίτης μεσίτᾱ μεσίται
Genitive μεσίτου μεσίταιν μεσιτῶν
Dative μεσίτῃ μεσίταιν μεσίταις
Accusative μεσίτην μεσίτᾱ μεσίτᾱς
Vocative μεσίτα μεσίτᾱ μεσίται

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

  • διὸ καὶ Μίθρην Πέρσαι τὸν μεσίτην ὀνομάζουσιν. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 46 3:1)
  • τοῦτον γὰρ μεσίτην γεγονότα τῶν ὁμολογιῶν ἐν Κόλχοισ ἐπηγγέλθαι βοηθήσειν αὐτῇ παρασπονδουμένῃ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 54 7:4)
  • ταῦτα δὲ ὀμνύντεσ ἔλεγον καὶ θεὸν μεσίτην ὧν ὑπισχνοῦντο ποιούμενοι δακρύοντέσ τε καὶ πανταχόθεν αὑτοὺσ ἐλεεινοὺσ ταῖσ γυναιξὶ κατασκευάζοντεσ εἶναι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 167:1)

Synonyms

  1. a mediator

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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