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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

  • ἣ δ’ ἐν δόμοισ ἔμεινεν Ἠλέκτρα πατρόσ, ταύτην ἐπειδὴ θαλερὸσ εἶχ’ ἥβησ χρόνοσ, μνηστῆρεσ ᾔτουν Ἑλλάδοσ πρῶτοι χθονόσ. (Euripides, episode 1:7)
  • ταύτησ οἱ τὰ πρῶτ’ ὠλβισμένοι μνηστῆρεσ ἦλθον Ἑλλάδοσ νεανίαι. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 1:2)
  • ὤμοσαν τὸν Τυνδάρειον ὁρ́κον οἱ κακόφρονεσ φιλόγαμοι μνηστῆρεσ ‐ ἡ δέ γ’ Ἐλπίσ, οἶμαι μέν, θεόσ, κἀξέπραξεν αὐτὸ μᾶλλον ἢ σὺ καὶ τὸ σὸν σθένοσ ‐ οὓσ λαβὼν στράτευε· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees 3:14)
  • ἐχρῶντο δὲ ἐν τοῖσ συμποσίοισ καὶ κιθαρῳδοῖσ καὶ ὀρχησταῖσ, ὡσ οἱ μνηστῆρεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 241)
  • "ὀκτὼ γάρ, φησί, καὶ ἑκατὸν ὄντεσ οἱ μνηστῆρεσ διετίθεσαν ψήφουσ ἐναντίασ ἀλλήλαισ, ἴσασ πρὸσ ἴσασ τὸν ἀριθμόν ὅσοιπερ ἦσαν καὶ αὐτοί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 29 1:2)

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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