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μνηστήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μνηστήρ μνηστῆρος

Structure: μνηστηρ (Stem)

Etym.: mna/omai

Sense

  1. a wooer, suitor
  2. calling to mind, mindful of

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μνηστήρ μνηστῆρε μνηστῆρες
Genitive μνηστῆρος μνηστήροιν μνηστήρων
Dative μνηστῆρι μνηστήροιν μνηστῆρσιν*
Accusative μνηστῆρα μνηστῆρε μνηστῆρας
Vocative μνηστήρ μνηστῆρε μνηστῆρες

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

  • μνηστήρ ποθ’ Ἑλένησ ἦλθεν, ὡσ ἀκούομεν. (Euripides, Helen, episode 5:36)
  • μνηστὴρ γὰρ ἦν μοι ποταμόσ, Ἀχελῷον λέγω, ὅσ μ’ ἐν τρισὶν μορφαῖσιν ἐξῄτει πατρόσ, φοιτῶν ἐναργὴσ ταῦροσ, ἄλλοτ’ αἰόλοσ δράκων ἑλικτόσ, ἄλλοτ’ ἀνδρείῳ κύτει βούπρῳροσ· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 1:3)
  • εἶσ καὶ ἐγὼ πολλῶν μνηστὴρ τεὸσ ἐνθάδ’ ἱκάνω. (Theocritus, Idylls, 32)
  • ὡσ Ἡρακλέουσ καταπολεμήσαντοσ τὸν Ἀχελῶον καὶ ἐνεγκαμένου τῆσ νίκησ ἆθλον τὸν Δηιανείρασ γάμον τῆσ Οἰνέωσ θυγατρόσ, ἣν πεποίηκε Σοφοκλῆσ τοιαῦτα λέγουσαν μνηστὴρ γὰρ ἦν μοι ποταμόσ, Ἀχελῶον λέγω, ὅσ μ’ ἐν τρισὶν μορφαῖσιν ἐξῄτει πατρόσ, φοιτῶν ἐναργὴσ ταῦροσ, ἄλλοτ’ αἰόλοσ δράκων ἑλικτόσ, ἄλλοτ’ ἀνδρείῳ κύτει βούπρῳροσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 2 26:6)

Synonyms

  1. calling to mind

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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