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πελάτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πελάτης πελάτου

Structure: πελατ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pela/zw

Sense

  1. one who approaches or comes near, a neighbour
  2. approaches
  3. one who approaches to seek protection, a dependant, cliens

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

  • καὶ ἐκαλοῦντο πελάται καὶ ἑκτήμοροι· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 2 2:2)
  • στεῦται δ’ ἱεροῦ Τμώλου πελάται ζυγὸν ἀμφιβαλεῖν δούλιον Ἑλλάδι, Μάρδων, Θάρυβισ, λόγχησ ἄκμονεσ, καὶ ἀκοντισταὶ Μυσοί· (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, anapests 1:2)
  • ὅτε τὰσ θυγατέρασ τῶν Σαβίνων ἐπὶ θέαν ἀγῶνοσ εἰσ Ῥώμην παραγενομένασ οἱ πρωτεύοντεσ ἀρετῇ Ῥωμαίων ἡρ́παζον ἑαυτοῖσ γυναῖκασ, ἄδοξοί τινεσ πελάται καὶ βοτῆρεσ ἀράμενοι κόρην καλὴν καὶ μεγάλην ἐκόμιζον. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 4 4:2)
  • πελάται δ’ εἰσὶ τῆσ οἰκίασ ἡμῶν ἐκ προγόνων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 36 3:4)
  • τὸ μὲν οὖν ἀργύριον οἱ πελάται τε καὶ συγγενεῖσ αὐτοῦ συνεισενέγκαντεσ ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων χρημάτων ἀπέδοσαν, ὥστε μηδεμιᾶσ πειραθῆναι ὕβρεωσ, ὁ δ’ ἀνὴρ ἀφόρητον ἡγούμενοσ τὸν προπηλακισμὸν ἐκχωρεῖν ἔγνω τῆσ πόλεωσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 13, chapter 5 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. one who approaches or comes near

  2. approaches

Related

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

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