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νεωτεριστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεωτεριστής νεωτεριστοῦ

Structure: νεωτεριστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from newteri/zw

Sense

  1. an innovator

Declension

First 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

  • γενομένησ δὲ τῆσ ἥττησ καί τῶν θορυβοποιῶν καί νεωτεριστῶν ἐν ἄστει τὸν Χαρίδημον ἑλκόντων ἐπὶ τὸ βῆμα καί στρατηγεῖν ἀξιούντων, ἐφοβήθησαν οἱ βέλτιστοι· (Plutarch, chapter 16 3:1)
  • ἐξάπτεται δὲ καὶ τοῖσ ἀρχιερεῦσι στάσισ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἱερεῖσ καὶ τοὺσ πρώτουσ τοῦ πλήθουσ τῶν Ιἑροσολυμιτῶν, ἕκαστόσ τε αὐτῶν στῖφοσ ἀνθρώπων τῶν θρασυτάτων καὶ νεωτεριστῶν ἑαυτῷ ποιήσασ ἡγεμὼν ἦν, καὶ συρράσσοντεσ ἐκακολόγουν τε ἀλλήλουσ καὶ λίθοισ ἔβαλλον. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 20 221:1)

Synonyms

  1. an innovator

Related

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

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