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ὁριστής?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: horistēs

Principal Part: ὁριστής ὁριστοῦ

Structure: ὁριστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: ὁρίζω

Sense

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

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁριστής ὁριστά ὁρισταί
Genitive ὁριστοῦ ὁρισταῖν ὁριστῶν
Dative ὁριστῇ ὁρισταῖν ὁρισταῖς
Accusative ὁριστήν ὁριστά ὁριστάς
Vocative ὁριστά ὁριστά ὁρισταί

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)
  • τῶν δ Ἑλληνικῶν δικαίων οἱ κρατοῦντες ὁρισταὶ τοῖς ἥττοσι γίγνονται. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 38:5)
  • εἰ δ ἕκαστον μὲν γνωρίζομεν διὰ τῶν ὁρισμῶν, ἀρχαὶ δὲ τὰ γένη τῶν ὁρισμῶν εἰσίν, ἀνάγκη καὶ τῶν ὁριστῶν ἀρχὰς εἶναι τὰ γένη. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 3 72:2)

Synonyms

  1. one who determines

Related

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부사

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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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