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πένης

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πένης πένητος

Structure: πενητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pe/nomai

Sense

  1. one who works for his daily bread, a day-labourer, a poor man, (beggar)
  2. of a poor man, poor in

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πένης πένητε πένητες
Genitive πένητος πενήτοιν πενήτων
Dative πένητι πενήτοιν πένησιν*
Accusative πένητα πένητε πένητας
Vocative πένη πένητε πένητες

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

  • φάγονται πένητεσ καὶ ἐμπλησθήσονται, καὶ αἰνέσουσι Κύριον οἱ ἐκζητοῦντεσ αὐτόν. ζήσονται αἱ καρδίαι αὐτῶν εἰσ αἰῶνα αἰῶνοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 21:27)
  • οὐδ̓ ἡμεῖσ οὕτω πένητεσ εὐλόγου ἀπολογίασ ὡσ ὑπὸ ἀπορίασ τὰ τοιαῦτα κρησφύγετα πρὸσ τὴν κατηγορίαν ζητεῖν. (Lucian, Apologia 25:1)
  • "τοῦτο ὡσ ἤκουσεν ὁ δῆμοσ, πένητεσ ἄνθρωποι καὶ πρὸσ διανομὰσ κεχηνότεσ, ἀνέκραγον εὐθὺσ ἕνα φιλόσοφον, ἕνα φιλόπατριν, ἕνα Διογένουσ καὶ Κράτητοσ ζηλωτήν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:33)
  • ἡμεῖσ μὲν οἱ πένητεσ γελῶμεν, ἀνιῶνται δὲ καὶ οἰμώζουσιν οἱ πλούσιοι. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 15:5)
  • Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ οἱ ἐν Ποτιδαίᾳ οἰκοῦντεσ δεόμενοι χρημάτων εἰσ τὸν πόλεμον ἀπογράψασθαι ἅπασι συνέταξαν τὰσ οὐσίασ, μὴ ἁθρόασ εἰσ τὸν αὑτοῦ δῆμον ἕκαστον, ἀλλὰ κατὰ κτῆμα ἐν ᾧ τόπῳ ἕκαστον εἰή, ἵνα οἱ πένητεσ δύνωνται ὑποτιμᾶσθαι· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 33:1)

Synonyms

  1. one who works for his daily bread

    • χερνής (one who lives by his hands, a day-labourer, a poor man)

  2. of a poor man

Similar forms

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

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