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ὀπαδός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀπαδός ὀπαδόν

Structure: ὀπαδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from o)pa/zw

Sense

  1. attendant, pursuing
  2. accompanying, attending

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ὀπαδός ό̓παδον
Genitive ὀπαδοῦ ὀπάδου
Dative ὀπαδῷ ὀπάδῳ
Accusative ὀπαδόν ό̓παδον
Vocative ὀπαδέ ό̓παδον
DualN/A/V ὀπαδώ ὀπάδω
G/D ὀπαδοῖν ὀπάδοιν
PluralNominative ὀπαδοί ό̓παδα
Genitive ὀπαδῶν ὀπάδων
Dative ὀπαδοῖς ὀπάδοις
Accusative ὀπαδούς ό̓παδα
Vocative ὀπαδοί ό̓παδα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὀπαδός ὀπαδοῦ ὀπαδώτερος ὀπαδωτεροῦ ὀπαδώτατος ὀπαδωτατοῦ
Adverb ὀπάδως ὀπαδώτερον ὀπαδώτατα

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

  • αἴρεσθ’, ὀπαδοί, τῶνδ’ ἔσω τεύχη δόμων. (Euripides, episode 4:23)
  • λύεθ’ ἱππικὰ φάτνησ, ὀπαδοί, κἀκκομίζεθ’ ἁρ́ματα, ὡσ ἂν πόνου γ’ ἕκατι μὴ λάθῃ με γῆσ τῆσδ’ ἐκκομισθεῖσ’ ἄλοχοσ, ἧσ ἐφίεμαι. (Euripides, Helen, episode13)
  • ὑποδέξασθε <δ’> ὀπαδοὶ μέλοσ· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 12)
  • αἴρετ’, ὀπαδοί, μεγάλην μὲν ἐμοὶ τούτων θέμενοι συγγνωμοσύνην, μεγάλην δὲ θεῶν ἀγνωμοσύνην εἰδότεσ ἔργων τῶν πρασσομένων, οἳ φύσαντεσ καὶ κλῃζόμενοι πατέρεσ τοιαῦτ’ ἐφορῶσι πάθη. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 9:2)
  • χαῖρε Σελαναία λιπαρόχροε, χαίρετε δ’ ἄλλοι ἀστέρεσ, εὐκήλοιο κατ’ ἄντυγα Νυκτὸσ ὀπαδοί. (Theocritus, Idylls, 115)

Synonyms

  1. attendant

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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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