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μισθοδότης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισθοδότης μισθοδότου

Structure: μισθοδοτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. one who pays wages, a paymaster

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

  • κοινῶν δὲ ὡσ ἐπίπαν ὄντων καὶ ὁμοίων τῶν συμβαινόντων ἅπασι, δῆλον ὡσ οὐκ ἐξαίρετα μέν, αἰσχίω δὲ τὰ αὐτὰ ὄντα γίγνεται τοῖσ φιλοσοφοῦσιν, εἰ τῶν ὁμοίων τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἀξιοῖντο καὶ μηδὲν αὐτοὺσ σεμνότερον οἱ μισθοδόται ἄγοιεν. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 4:2)
  • λέγεισ δὲ οὐχ ὅταν σοι δοκῇ, οὐδ’ ἃν βούλῃ, ἀλλ’ ὅταν οἱ μισθοδόται σοι προστάττωσιν· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 2184)

Synonyms

  1. one who pays wages

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

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