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οἰωνιστής?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: oiōnistēs

Principal Part: οἰωνιστής οἰωνιστοῦ

Structure: οἰωνιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

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

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative οἰωνιστής οἰωνιστά οἰωνισταί
Genitive οἰωνιστοῦ οἰωνισταῖν οἰωνιστῶν
Dative οἰωνιστῇ οἰωνισταῖν οἰωνισταῖς
Accusative οἰωνιστήν οἰωνιστά οἰωνιστάς
Vocative οἰωνιστά οἰωνιστά 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 Πευκεΐδας, 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

  1. one who foretells from the flight and cries of birds

Similar forms

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

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