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ὁριστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁριστής ὁριστοῦ

Structure: ὁριστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: o(ri/zw

Sense

  1. one who marks the boundaries;, officers appointed to settle boundaries
  2. one who determines

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

  • ταύτασ τὰσ φυλὰσ ἔγραψασ ἀποδοῦναι τὸ ὄροσ τῷ Ἀμφιαράῳ καὶ τὴν τιμὴν ὧν ἀπέδοντο, ὡσ πρότερον τοὺσ ὁριστὰσ τοὺσ πεντήκοντα ἐξελόντασ αὐτὸ τῷ θεῷ καὶ ἀφορίσαντασ, καὶ οὐ προσηκόντωσ τὰσ δύο φυλὰσ ἐχούσασ τὸ ὄροσ. (Hyperides, Speeches, 16:4)
  • τῇ τε αἱρέσει τῶν ἀνδρῶν, οὓσ Ἄππιοσ ἠξίου ὁριστὰσ γενέσθαι τῆσ δημοσίασ γῆσ, πάνυ εὐδοκῶ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 74 4:2)
  • τοὺσ δ’ ὁριστὰσ αὐτῆσ ἄνδρασ καὶ τὸ ὑμέτερον ψήφισμα, ὃ περὶ τῆσ κληρουχίασ ἐξοίσετε, καὶ τἆλλα, ὅσα δεῖ γενέσθαι, ἐπειδὴ βραχὺσ ὁ λειπόμενόσ ἐστι τῆσ ἀρχῆσ τοῖσ ὑπάτοισ χρόνοσ, τοὺσ εἰσιόντασ ὑπάτουσ, ὡσ ἂν αὐτοῖσ κράτιστα δοκῇ ἕξειν, ἐπιτελέσαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 75 6:1)
  • τοῖσ μὲν οὖν ἄλλοισ οὐκ ἐδόκει καιρὸσ ἁρμόττων εἶναι πολέμου συνεστῶτοσ ὑπερορίου τὰσ πολιτικὰσ ἔχθρασ ἀναζωπυρεῖν, εἷσ δέ τισ ἐξ αὐτῶν Γάϊοσ Μαίνιοσ οὐκ ἔφη προδώσειν τοὺσ δημοτικούσ, οὐδ’ ἐπιτρέψειν τοῖσ ὑπάτοισ στρατιὰν καταγράφειν, ἐὰν μὴ πρότερον ἀποδείξωσι τοὺσ ὁριστὰσ τῆσ δημοσίασ γῆσ καὶ τὸ περὶ τῆσ κληρουχίασ ψήφισμα γράψαντεσ εἰσ τὸν δῆμον ἐξενέγκωσιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 87 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. one who determines

Related

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

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