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νικητήριος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: nikētērios

Principal Part: νικητήριος νικητήρια νικητήριον

Structure: νικητηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: νικάω

Sense

  1. belonging to a conqueror or to victory;, as the conqueror's reward
  2. the prize of victory
  3. the festival of victory

Examples

  • πρὸς σοῦ δικαίως, ἣν ὁ μὲν βίᾳ γαμεῖ, τὰ δ οἴκοθεν κεῖν ἀντὶ νικητηρίων πικρῶς ἐδούλευς· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 2:18)
  • Ἑλλάνιε Ζεῦ σὸν τὸ νικητήριον. (Aristotle, Episode 2:24)
  • πρόσεχε τὸν νοῦν ᾠὰ μὲν πέντε νικητήριον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 4 1:5)
  • καὶ γὰρ πάλαι πέττει τὰ νικητήρια, εἶθ ἑξῆς φησιν ἐξεπήδησ1 ἀρτίως πέττουσα τὸν χαρίσιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 7 1:1)
  • θήσω δὲ νικητήριον τρεῖς ταινίας καὶ μῆλα πέντε καὶ φιλήματ ἐννέα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 7 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. the prize of victory

  2. the festival of victory

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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