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μιμητής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μιμητής μιμητοῦ

Structure: μιμητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: mime/omai

Sense

  1. an imitator, copyist
  2. one who represents
  3. a mere actor, an impostor

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μιμητής μιμητᾱ́ μιμηταί
Genitive μιμητοῦ μιμηταῖν μιμητῶν
Dative μιμητῇ μιμηταῖν μιμηταῖς
Accusative μιμητήν μιμητᾱ́ μιμητᾱ́ς
Vocative μιμητά μιμητᾱ́ μιμηταί

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

  • ἆρ’ οὖν ἴδιόν τι περὶ ταύτην τὴν σύγκρισιν ὑπάρχει καὶ μὴ πάνυ συμβεβηκὸσ ἑτέρᾳ τῶν ἀναγεγραμμένων, τὸν ἕτερον γεγονέναι μιμητὴν τοῦ ἑτέρου, τὸν ἕτερον δὲ μάρτυν; (Plutarch, Comparison of Solon and Publicola, chapter 1 1:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ μιμητὴν δεῖ εἶναι ἀλλ’ αὐτοφυῶσ ὅμοιον τούτοισ, εἰ μέλλεισ τι γνήσιον ἀπεργάζεσθαι εἰσ φιλίαν τῷ Ἀθηναίων δήμῳ καὶ ναὶ μὰ Δία τῷ Πυριλάμπουσ γε πρόσ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 404:1)
  • ἅμα τῆσ τύχησ, ὡσ Τίμαιοσ ἔφη, τὸν μιμητὴν ἐξαγούσησ τῶν τραγικῶν παθῶν καὶ τὸν ἀγωνιστὴν ἐπεισαγούσησ ἐμνήσθησαν δὲ καὶ τῆσ Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ βασιλέωσ τελευτῆσ καὶ τῆσ Διογένουσ τοῦ Κυνὸσ ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ γενομένησ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 5:1)
  • γόητα μὲν δὴ καὶ μιμητὴν ἄρα θετέον αὐτόν τινα. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 114:3)
  • μιμητὴν δὴ τοῦτόν γε ἕτερον ἐκείνου λεκτέον οἶμαι, τὸν ἀγνοοῦντα τοῦ γιγνώσκοντοσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 309:1)

Synonyms

  1. an imitator

  2. one who represents

Related

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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