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περιηγητής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιηγητής περιηγητοῦ

Structure: περιηγητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: perihge/omai

Sense

  1. one who guides strangers about and shews what is worth notice, a cicerone, showman, a describer

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

  • εἰ γοῦν τισ ἀφέλοι τὰ μυθώδη ταῦτα ἐκ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ, οὐδὲν ἂν κωλύσειε λιμῷ τοὺσ περιηγητὰσ αὐτῶν διαφθαρῆναι μηδὲ ἀμισθὶ τῶν ξένων τἀληθὲσ ἀκούειν ἐθελησάντων. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 4:3)
  • "ὦ παῖ, δοκοῦμεν ἐπηρείᾳ τινὶ τοὺσ περιηγητὰσ ἀφαιρεῖσθαι τὸ οἰκεῖον ἔργον. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 7 2:1)
  • ἐκ τούτου τοὺσ περιηγητὰσ; (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 131)

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

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