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πολυδέκτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυδέκτης πολυδέκτου

Structure: πολυδεκτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. the all-receiver

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

  • ἤτοι τό τε θεσπέσιον Φόρκοιο μαύρωσεν γένοσ, λυγρόν τ’ ἔρανον Πολυδέκτᾳ θῆκε ματρόσ τ’ ἔμπεδον δουλοσύναν τό τ’ ἀναγκαῖον λέχοσ, εὐπαράου κρᾶτα συλάσαισ Μεδοίσασ υἱὸσ Δανάασ· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 12 4:1)
  • ἔτλησ καὶ σὺ λέχη Δανάησ, Πολύδεκτα, μιαίνειν, δυσφήμοισ εὐναῖσ τὸν Δί’ ἀμειψάμενοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 3, chapter 112)

Synonyms

  1. the all-receiver

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

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