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μισθοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισθοφόρος μισθοφόρον

Structure: μισθοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

receiving wages or pay, serving for hire, mercenary
mercenaries, manned with mercenaries

Declension

First/Second declension

		M/F	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	μισθοφόρος	μισθόφορον
	Genitive	μισθοφόρου	μισθοφόρου
	Dative	μισθοφόρῳ	μισθοφόρῳ
	Accusative	μισθοφόρον	μισθόφορον
	Vocative	μισθοφόρε	μισθόφορον
Dual	N/A/V	μισθοφόρω	μισθοφόρω
Dual	G/D	μισθοφόροιν	μισθοφόροιν
Plural	Nominative	μισθοφόροι	μισθόφορα
	Genitive	μισθοφόρων	μισθοφόρων
	Dative	μισθοφόροις	μισθοφόροις
	Accusative	μισθοφόρους	μισθόφορα
	Vocative	μισθοφόροι	μισθόφορα

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	μισθοφόρος μισθοφόρου	μισθοφορώτερος μισθοφορωτέρου	μισθοφορώτατος μισθοφορωτάτου
Adverb	μισθοφόρως	μισθοφορώτερον	μισθοφορώτατα

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

ὧν ἦν μία μὲν ἐκ τῶν ῥυπαρωτάτων πολιτῶν, μεθ’ ὧν κατέλυσε τὴν ἀριστοκρατικὴν πολιτείαν, ἑτέρα δ’ ἐκ τῶν ἀνοσιωτάτων δούλων, οὓσ αὐτὸσ ἠλευθέρωσεν ἀποκτείναντασ τοὺσ αὑτῶν δεσπότασ, τρίτη δὲ μισθοφόροσ ἐκ τῶν ἀγριωτάτων βαρβάρων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 8 4:2)
ἴσωσ δέ γ’, ὦ θαυμάσιε, πλείω ἂν τοιαῦτ’ ἔπαθεσ εἴ τίσ σε προσηρώτα εἰ ἐπίστασθαι ἔστι μὲν ὀξύ, ἔστι δὲ ἀμβλύ, καὶ ἐγγύθεν μὲν ἐπίστασθαι, πόρρωθεν δὲ μή, καὶ σφόδρα καὶ ἠρέμα τὸ αὐτό, καὶ ἄλλα μυρία, ἃ ἐλλοχῶν ἂν πελταστικὸσ ἀνὴρ μισθοφόροσ ἐν λόγοισ ἐρόμενοσ, ἡνίκ’ ἐπιστήμην καὶ αἴσθησιν ταὐτὸν ἔθου, ἐμβαλὼν ἂν εἰσ τὸ ἀκούειν καὶ ὀσφραίνεσθαι καὶ τὰσ τοιαύτασ αἰσθήσεισ, ἤλεγχεν ἂν ἐπέχων καὶ οὐκ ἀνιεὶσ πρὶν θαυμάσασ τὴν πολυάρατον σοφίαν συνεποδίσθησ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ, οὗ δή σε χειρωσάμενόσ τε καὶ συνδήσασ ἤδη ἂν τότε ἐλύτρου χρημάτων ὅσων σοί τε κἀκείνῳ ἐδόκει. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 144:2)

Synonyms

receiving wages or pay
- ὑπόμισθος (serving for pay, hired)
- μισθαρνητικός (of or for hired work, mercenary, the trade of one who takes wages or pay)
mercenaries
- ἀνδρεῖος (Of or pertaining to a man)

μισθοφορά (receipt of wages or wages received)
ὁριστής (one who marks the boundaries)
ἀντίταγμα (an opposing force)
κληρωτός (appointed by lot)
θητικός (of or for a hireling)
μετάθεσις (transposition)
κλινοποιός (making beds or bedsteads)
τυραννοκτονία (the slaying of a tyrant)
δωροδόκημα (acceptance of a bribe)
σιτηρέσιον (provisions)
βραβεύω (to act as a judge or umpire)
σιτομετρία (the office of)
δίδραχμος (worth two drachms)
διάγνωσις (distinguishing)
γυμνασιαρχία (the office of a gymnasiarch)
ἀργυρικός (of)
ψηφίζω (to count or reckon)
πεμπτέος (to be sent)
μισθοδοσία (payment of wages)
ὠνητής (a buyer)
ἐκλογισμός (a computation)
παιδονόμος (supervisor of education)
τίμησις (esteeming)
καταστατέος (one must appoint)
πενέστης (a labourer)
πεντακοσιομέδιμνος (possessing land which produced)
ζημίωμα (a penalty)
ἐφορεία (the ephoralty)
νομάρχης (the chief of an Egyptian province)
δεκαπλάσιος (tenfold)

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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μισθοφόρος

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receiving wages or pay

mercenaries

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Sense

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receiving wages or pay

mercenaries

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