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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

  • τὸ δὲ πλεῖον παρεκάλει πρὸσ τὸ μέλλον, ἀξιῶν αὐτοὺσ εὔνουσ ὑπάρχειν τοῖσ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ μισθοδόταισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 69 2:1)
  • φανερῶσ ἀνάγκη δυεῖν θάτερον ἢ τὸ τῶν βασιλέων λυσιτελὲσ ἐπίπροσθεν γίνεσθαι τοῦ κατ’ ἰδίαν συμφέροντοσ ἢ τούτου μὴ συμβαίνοντοσ ἀχαρίστουσ φαίνεσθαι πᾶσιν, ἀντιπράττοντασ τοῖσ αὑτῶν μισθοδόταισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 22, chapter 8 7:1)

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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