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ὁδοποιός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁδοποιός ὁδοποιοῦ

Structure: ὁδοποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poie/w

Sense

  1. one who opens the way, a pioneer
  2. a road-surveyor

Declension

Second 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

  • περὶ μὲν οὖν Σωστράτου ἐν ἄλλῳ βιβλίῳ γέγραπταί μοι καὶ δεδήλωται μέγεθόσ τε αὐτοῦ καὶ ἰσχύοσ ὑπερβολὴ καὶ ἡ ὕπαιθροσ ἐν τῷ Παρνασσῷ δίαιτα, καὶ ἡ ἐπίπονοσ εὐνὴ καὶ τροφαὶ ὄρειοι καὶ ἔργα οὐκ ἀπῳδὰ τοῦ ὀνόματοσ ὅσα ἢ λῃστὰσ αἴρων ἔπραξεν ἢ ὁδοποιῶν τὰ ἄβατα ἢ γεφυρῶν τὰ δύσπορα. (Lucian, (no name) 1:2)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ Ποσειδῶν ἐπιβεβηκὼσ ἁρ́ματοσ, παροχουμένην τὴν Ἀμφιτρίτην ἔχων προῆγε γεγηθὼσ ὁδοποιῶν νηχομένῳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, zephyrus and notus, chapter 3 1:1)
  • ἀκολούθωσ δὲ ταύτῃ τῇ μεγαλοπρεπείᾳ παρηκολούθει πλῆθοσ ὁδοποιῶν καὶ τεχνιτῶν, ἔτι δὲ τῶν στρατιωτῶν παραπεμπόντων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 28 2:1)
  • Οὐ πολὺ δὲ ὕστερον καὶ συνεμάχησε Ῥωμαίοισ ὁ Φίλιπποσ ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι κατ’ Ἀντιόχου βασιλέωσ, περῶντάσ τε ἐπὶ Ἀντίοχον ἐσ τὴν Ἀσίαν διὰ Θρᾴκησ καὶ Μακεδονίασ ὁδὸν οὐκ εὐμαρῆ παρέπεμπεν οἰκείοισ τέλεσι καὶ τροφαῖσ, ὁδοποιῶν καὶ ποταμοὺσ δυσπόρουσ ζευγνὺσ καὶ τοὺσ ἐπικειμένουσ Θρᾷκασ διακόπτων, ἑώσ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον ἤγαγεν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 7:1)
  • πολὺσ δὲ καὶ ἄλλοσ ὅμιλοσ ὁδοποιῶν καὶ σκευοφόρων εἵπετο καὶ ἐμπόρων. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 10 3:7)

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

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