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πολῑ́της

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολῑ́της πολῑ́του

Structure: πολῑτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: cf. also polih/ths

Sense

  1. citizen
  2. freeman
  3. fellow citizen, compatriot

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

  • ἢν δέ σοι μελήσῃ ποτὲ εἰδέναι ὅπωσ ἂν τὰ κάλλιστα οἰκηθείη πόλισ καὶ ὅπωσ ἂν ἄριστοι γένοιντο οἱ πολῖται αὐτῆσ, ἐπαινέσῃ τότε καὶ τὰσ ἀσκήσεισ ταύτασ καὶ τὴν φιλοτιμίαν ἣν φιλοτιμούμεθα περὶ αὐτάσ, καὶ εἴσῃ ὅτι πολὺ τὸ χρήσιμον ἔχουσιν ἐγκαταμεμιγμένον τοῖσ πόνοισ, εἰ καὶ νῦν μάτην σπουδάζεσθαι δοκοῦσιν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 14:2)
  • μάλιστα δὲ καὶ ἐξ ἅπαντοσ τοῦτο προνοοῦμεν, ὅπωσ οἱ πολῖται ἀγαθοὶ μὲν τὰσ ψυχάσ, ἰσχυροὶ δὲ τὰ σώματα γίγνοιντο· (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 20:5)
  • οἱ οὖν πολῖται ἀγανακτήσαντεσ ἐπὶ τῷ ἐξηπατῆσθαι, σφάζοντεσ ἐπώλουν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 73:4)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ οἱ ἄλλοι πολῖται εἰσήνεγκαν, ἐκέλευσε καὶ ταῦτα αὑτῷ δανεῖσαι ἐν χρόνῳ διειπάμενοσ ἐν ᾧ πάλιν αὐτοῖσ ἀποδώσει. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 103:2)
  • τόνδε δ’ Αἰγίσθου νέκυν Ἄργουσ πολῖται γῆσ καλύψουσιν τάφῳ. (Euripides, episode, anapests 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. citizen

  2. fellow citizen

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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