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μηνυτής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: mēnytēs

Principal Part: μηνυτής μηνυτές

Structure: μηνυτη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: μηνύω

Sense

  1. bringing to light
  2. an informer

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

  • οὐ γὰρ ποιητὴς αὐτῶν, ἀλλὰ μηνυτὴς ἦν. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 38 2:1)
  • ταῦτα τοῦ Τιμαίου λέγοντος καὶ διδάσκοντος ὁ Ἀνδοκίδης ἐπείσθη, καὶ γενόμενος μηνυτὴς καθ αὑτοῦ καὶ καθ ἑτέρων ἔσχε τὴν ἐκ τοῦ ψηφίσματος ἄδειαν αὐτός: (Plutarch, , chapter 21 4:1)
  • ἐκ τούτου βεβαιότατος μὲν ἦν Μαρκέλλῳ παραστάτης καὶ σύμμαχος, δεινότατος δὲ μηνυτὴς καὶ κατήγορος τῶν τἀναντία φρονούντων ὁ Βάνδιος. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 11 1:1)
  • ἔλεξαν γὰρ ὡς ἐγὼ μηνύσαιμι περὶ τῶν μυστηρίων, ἀπογράψαιμί τε τὸν πατέρα τὸν ἐμαυτοῦ παρόντα, καὶ γενοίμην μηνυτὴς κατὰ τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ ἐμαυτοῦ, λόγον οἶμαι πάντων δεινότατόν τε καὶ ἀνοσιώτατον λέγοντες. (Andocides, Speeches, 41:3)
  • οἱό῀ν τε δ οὐκ ἦν, εἴπερ ἐγὼ μηνυτὴς ἐγενόμην περὶ τοῦ πατρός, ἀλλ ἢ ἐμὲ ἢ ἐκεῖνον ἔδει ἀποθανεῖν. (Andocides, Speeches, 42:7)

Synonyms

  1. bringing to light

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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