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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

  • τοιόνδ’ ἐγὼ μνηστῆρα προσδεδεγμένη δύστηνοσ αἰεὶ κατθανεῖν ἐπηυχόμην, πρὶν τῆσδε κοίτησ ἐμπελασθῆναί ποτε. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 1:5)
  • εὑρ́ετο γὰρ μνηστῆρα τὸν ἤθελε, καὶ λάχεν ἥβην σώφρονα, καὶ τεκέων ἄρσεν ἔτικτε γένοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 592)
  • ἐλθεῖν γὰρ αὐτὸν εἰσ Τροίαν μνηστῆρα , ἄγειν δὲ καὶ τὸν Ἡρακλέα φίλον ὄντα καὶ ξένον Λαομέδοντι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 61:10)
  • καὶ ἐὰν πολλὰ τοιαῦτά γε λέγῃ, πολὺ μᾶλλόν με τῆσ θυγατρὸσ μνηστῆρα λήψεται ἢ ἐὰν ἐκπώματα πολλά μοι ἐπιδεικνύῃ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 18:4)
  • ἁγισθέντων δὲ τῶν ἱερῶν, τότε ἄρχεσθαι τοῦ δρόμου τὸν Οἰνόμαον καὶ διώκειν τὸν μνηστῆρα, ἔχοντα δόρυ καὶ ἡνίοχον τὸν Μυρτίλον· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 73 4:2)

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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