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οἰωνοθέτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰωνοθέτης οἰωνοθέτου

Structure: οἰωνοθετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: ti/qhmi

Sense

  1. an interpreter of auguries.

Declension

First 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

  • δεινὰ μὲν οὖν, δεινὰ ταράσσει σοφὸσ οἰωνοθέτασ οὔτε δοκοῦντ’ οὔτ’ ἀποφάσκονθ’· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, strophe 21)

Synonyms

  1. an interpreter of auguries

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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