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πεδητής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεδητής πεδητοῦ

Structure: πεδητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: peda/w

Sense

  1. a hinderer

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

  • ἦν δὲ οὐ πεδήτησ οὐδὲ αὐχμοῦ πλέωσ, οἱο͂ν αὐτὸν οἱ ζωγράφοι παρὰ τῶν λήρων τῶν ποιητῶν παραδεξάμενοι ἐπιδείκνυνται, ἀλλὰ τὴν μὲν ἁρ́την εἶχε πάνυ τεθηγμένην· (Lucian, Saturnalia, 1:5)
  • "ἀπὸ ποίασ αἰτίασ ὁ ἀνδρὼν ἐν Σάμῳ πεδήτησ καλεῖται; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 571)
  • "ἀπὸ ποίασ αἰτίασ ὁ ἀνδρὼν ἐν Σάμῳ πεδήτησ καλεῖται; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 571)

Synonyms

  1. a hinderer

Derived

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

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