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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

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 ἐπινικίουσ ἐπικείμενον στεφάνουσ, οἷσ αὐτὸν ὁ βασιλεὺσ ἀνέδησε, καὶ τοὺσ ἑταίρουσ αὐτοῦ φέροντασ τὰ τῶν πεφονευμένων σκῦλα, ἐν οἷσ ἦν πέπλοσ ποικίλοσ, ὃν αὐτὴ μετὰ τῆσ μητρὸσ ἐξυφήνασα τῷ μνηστῆρι δῶρον εἰσ τὸν μέλλοντα γάμον ἀπεστάλκει ̔ποικίλουσ γὰρ ἔθοσ ἐστὶν ἀμφιέννυσθαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 21 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. calling to mind

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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