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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

  • ἡ δὲ βουλὴ θεραπεύουσα τὸν δῆμον ἐκ τῶν παρόντων οὔτε πρὸσ τὴν διανομὴν ἔτι τῆσ χώρασ ἠναντιοῦτο, καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ Τιβερίου προὔθηκε τοῖσ πολλοῖσ ὁριστὴν ἑλέσθαι. (Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus, chapter 21 1:1)

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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