Hellas Alive Dictionary - οιωνιστης

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οἰωνιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰωνιστής οἰωνιστοῦ

Structure: οἰωνιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

one who foretells from the flight and cries of birds, an augur

Declension

First declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	οἰωνιστής	οἰωνιστᾱ́	οἰωνισταί
Genitive	οἰωνιστοῦ	οἰωνισταῖν	οἰωνιστῶν
Dative	οἰωνιστῇ	οἰωνισταῖν	οἰωνισταῖς
Accusative	οἰωνιστήν	οἰωνιστᾱ́	οἰωνιστᾱ́ς
Vocative	οἰωνιστά	οἰωνιστᾱ́	οἰωνισταί

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

Κένταυροι δ’ ἑτέρωθεν ἐναντίοι ἠγερέθοντο ἀμφὶ μέγαν Πετραῖον ἰδ’ Ἄσβολον οἰωνιστὴν Ἄρκτον τ’ Οὔρειόν τε μελαγχαίτην τε Μίμαντα καὶ δύο Πευκεί̈δασ, Περιμήδεά τε Δρύαλόν τε, ἀργύρεοι, χρυσέασ ἐλάτασ ἐν χερσὶν ἔχοντεσ. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 18:3)
ἔπειτα τὸν δῆμον καλέσαντεσ εἰσ τὴν λοχῖτιν ἐκκλησίαν ἱερομνημόνων τε καὶ οἰωνιστῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἱερέων παρόντων καὶ τὰ θεῖα ὡσ νόμοσ ἐξηγησαμένων ἀνέδωκαν τοῖσ λόχοισ τὰσ ψήφουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 57 9:2)
Μυσῶν δὲ Χρόμισ ἦρχε καὶ Ἔννομοσ οἰωνιστήσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 98:1)
Αἰᾶν ἐπεί τισ νῶϊ θεῶν οἳ Ὄλυμπον ἔχουσι μάντεϊ εἰδόμενοσ κέλεται παρὰ νηυσὶ μάχεσθαι, οὐδ’ ὅ γε Κάλχασ ἐστὶ θεοπρόποσ οἰωνιστήσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 13 9:4)
ὄτρυνεν δὲ ἕκαστον ἐποιχόμενοσ ἐπέεσσι Μέσθλην τε Γλαῦκόν τε Μέδοντά τε Θερσίλοχόν τε Ἀστεροπαῖόν τε Δεισήνορά θ’ Ἱππόθοόν τε Φόρκυν τε Χρομίον τε καὶ Ἔννομον οἰωνιστήν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 17 21:5)

Synonyms

one who foretells from the flight and cries of birds
- οἰωνόμαντις (one who takes omens from the flight and cries of birds, an augur)
- οἰωνοπόλος (one busied with the flight and cries of birds, an augur)
- οἰώνισμα (divination by the flight or cries of birds)

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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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