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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

  • τοιοῦτόσ ἐστι καὶ ὁ παρὰ τοῖσ μνηστῆρσιν ἀείδων ἀνάγκῃ, ὃσ τοὺσ ἐφεδρεύοντασ τῇ Πηνελόπῃ ἐβδελύττετο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 24 1:4)
  • καὶ τοῖσ μνηστῆρσιν ᾅδει πρὸσ τὴν αὐτὴν βουλὴν ὁ Φήμιοσ νόστον Ἀχαιῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 24 3:1)
  • γὰρ Ὀδυσσεὺσ καταγελᾶται παρὰ τοῖσ μνηστῆρσιν αἰτίζων ἀκόλουσ, οὐκ ἀόρασ οὐδὲ λέβητασ μεγαλοψυχίασ; (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 10 2:1)
  • ὅτι δὲ καὶ οἱ Σάμιοι διαφέροντέσ εἰσι πλακοῦντεσ Σώπατροσ ὁ φλυακογράφοσ φησὶν ἐν Βακχίδοσ Μνηστῆρσιν πλακουντοποιὸν ὠνομασμένην Σάμον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 51 4:1)
  • "μῆλα καὶ ῥόασ λέγεισ, Ἄλεξισ Μνηστῆρσιν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 6238)

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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