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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

  • τοὺσ δὲ μνηστῆρασ τοὺσ τριάκοντα τόδε τὸ φώνημα γνωρίζειν, ὅτι Φώκου εἰή. (Plutarch, Amatoriae narrationes, chapter 4 11:2)
  • ὁρ́κουσ συνάψαι δεξιάσ τε συμβαλεῖν μνηστῆρασ ἀλλήλοισι καὶ δι’ ἐμπύρων σπονδὰσ καθεῖναι κἀπαράσασθαι τάδε· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 1:6)
  • καὶ τοὺσ μνηστῆρασ δὲ ὑβριστὰσ ὄντασ καὶ πρὸσ ἡδονὰσ ἀνειμένουσ οὔτε ἰχθῦσ ἐσθίοντασ ποιεῖ οὔτε ὄρνιθασ οὔτε μελίπηκτα, περιελὼν παντὶ σθένει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 15 3:4)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ὅτε μνηστῆρασ εἰσάγει μεθύοντασ, οὐδὲ τότε τοιαύτην ἀκοσμίαν εἰσήγαγεν ὡσ Σοφοκλῆσ καὶ Αἰσχύλοσ πεποιήκασιν, ἀλλὰ πόδα βόειον ἐπὶ τὸν Ὀδυσσέα ῥιπτούμενον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 30 3:1)
  • ἔθοσ δέ ἐστιν ἐν Βοσπόρῳ τοὺσ μνηστῆρασ ἐπὶ τῷ δείπνῳ αἰτεῖν τὰσ κόρασ καὶ λέγειν οἵτινεσ ὄντεσ ἀξιοῦσι καταδεχθῆναι ἐπὶ τὸν γάμον, καὶ δὴ καὶ τότε ἔτυχον ἐν τῷ δείπνῳ πολλοὶ μνηστῆρεσ παρόντεσ, βασιλεῖσ καὶ βασιλέων παῖδεσ· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 43:5)

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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