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ὀπτήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀπτήρ ὀπτῆρος

Structure: ὀπτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: o)/y

Sense

  1. one who looks or spies, a spy, scout
  2. an eyewitness

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀπτήρ ὀπτῆρε ὀπτῆρες
Genitive ὀπτῆρος ὀπτήροιν ὀπτήρων
Dative ὀπτῆρι ὀπτήροιν ὀπτῆρσιν*
Accusative ὀπτῆρα ὀπτῆρε ὀπτῆρας
Vocative ὀπτήρ ὀπτῆρε ὀπτῆρες

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

  • ἔνθ’ ἦ τοι μὲν ἐγὼ κελόμην ἐρίηρασ ἑταίρουσ αὐτοῦ πὰρ νήεσσι μένειν καὶ νῆασ ἔρυσθαι, ὀπτῆρασ δὲ κατὰ σκοπιὰσ ὤτρυνα νέεσθαι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 22:2)
  • ἔνθ’ ἦ τοι μὲν ἐγὼ κελόμην ἐρίηρασ ἑταίρουσ αὐτοῦ πὰρ νήεσσι μένειν καὶ νῆασ ἔρυσθαι, ὀπτῆρασ δὲ κατὰ σκοπιὰσ ὤτρυνα νέεσθαι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 17 60:3)
  • πεμψάντων δὲ καὶ ὀπτῆρασ ὧν πράττομεν καὶ φραστῆρασ ὧν ἐρωτῶμεν. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 20:3)

Synonyms

  1. one who looks or spies

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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