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οἰκητήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκητήρ οἰκητῆρος

Structure: οἰκητηρ (Stem)

Etym.: poetic for oi)khth/s, Soph.

Sense

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

  • ἡ γὰρ νέουσ ἑρ́ποντασ εὐμενεῖ πέδῳ, ἅπαντα πανδοκοῦσα παιδείασ ὄτλον, ἐθρέψατ’ οἰκητῆρασ ἀσπιδηφόρουσ πιστοὺσ ὅπωσ γένοισθε πρὸσ χρέοσ τόδε. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 2:3)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐ γὰρ αὐδᾶν ἡδὺ τἀκίνητ’ ἔπη, ἐά μ’ ἐν οἷσιν ἠρξάμην, τὸ σὸν μόνον πιστὸν φυλάσσων, κοὔποτ’ Οἰδίπουν ἐρεῖσ ἀχρεῖον οἰκητῆρα δέξασθαι τόπων τῶν ἐνθάδ’, εἴπερ μὴ θεοὶ ψεύσουσί με. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:7)

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

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