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μετοικιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετοικιστής μετοικιστοῦ

Structure: μετοικιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: metoiki/zw

Sense

  1. an emigrant

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

  • δοῦλοι γὰρ δὴ καὶ συφορβῶν παῖδεσ ὀνομαζόμενοι, πρὶν ἐλεύθεροι γενέσθαι, πάντασ ὀλίγου δεῖν ἠλευθέρωσαν Λατίνουσ, ἑνὶ χρόνῳ τῶν καλλίστων ὀνομάτων ἅμα τυχόντεσ, φονεῖσ ἐχθρῶν καὶ σωτῆρεσ οἰκείων καὶ βασιλεῖσ ἐθνῶν καὶ οἰκισταὶ πόλεων, οὐ μετοικισταὶ, καθάπερ ἦν ὁ Θησεύσ, ἐκ πολλῶν συντιθεὶσ καὶ συνοικοδομῶν ἓν οἰκητήριον, ἀναιρῶν δὲ πολλὰσ πόλεισ ἐπωνύμουσ βασιλέων καὶ ἡρώων παλαιῶν, Ῥωμύλοσ δὲ ταῦτα μὲν ὕστερον ἔδρα, τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἀναγκάζων τὰ οἰκεῖα καταβάλλοντασ καὶ ἀφανίζοντασ τοῖσ νενικηκόσι προσνέμεσθαι· (Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus, chapter 4 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. an emigrant

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

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