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πληρωτής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πληρωτής πληρωτοῦ

Structure: πληρωτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: plhro/w

Sense

  1. one who completes

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

  • τούτου δὲ γενομένου προσῄεσάν μοι οἱ χρῆσται οἷσ ὠφείλετο παρὰ τῷ Μίδᾳ καὶ οἱ πληρωταὶ τῶν ἐράνων καὶ διελέγοντό μοι· (Hyperides, Speeches, 9:2)
  • ἐγὼ νομίζω πάντασ ἀνθρώπουσ ἐράνουσ φέρειν παρὰ πάντα τὸν βίον αὑτοῖσ, οὐχὶ τούσδε μόνουσ οὓσ συλλέγουσί τινεσ καὶ ὧν πληρωταὶ γίγνονται, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄλλουσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 238:4)
  • ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν οἱ νόμοι μετὰ τοὺσ θεοὺσ ὁμολογοῦνται σῴζειν τὴν πόλιν, δεῖ πάντασ ὑμᾶσ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ καθῆσθ’ ἐράνου πληρωταί, τὸν μὲν πειθόμενον τούτοισ ὡσ φέροντα τὴν τῆσ σωτηρίασ φορὰν πλήρη τῇ πατρίδι τιμᾶν καὶ ἐπαινεῖν, τὸν δ’ ἀπειθοῦντα κολάζειν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 26:2)
  • διὰ μὲν τὸ πάθοσ ἀλγῇ, μεμνῆται δὲ τῶν ἡδέων <ὧν> γενομένων παύοιτ’ ἂν τῆσ ἀλγηδόνοσ, πληρῶται δὲ μήπω· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 150:6)

Synonyms

  1. one who completes

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

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