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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

  • ἐπεὶ καὶ Σιμωνίδησ ὁ ποιητὴσ οὐκ Εὐνόμου λέγει τὸν Λυκοῦργον πατρόσ, ἀλλὰ Πρυτάνιδοσ καὶ τὸν Λυκοῦργον καὶ τὸν Εὔνομον, οἱ δὲ πλεῖστοι σχεδὸν οὐχ οὕτω γενεαλογοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ Προκλέουσ μὲν τοῦ Ἀριστοδήμου γενέσθαι Σόον, Σόου δὲ Εὐρυπῶντα, τούτου δὲ Πρύτανιν, ἐκ τούτου δὲ Εὔνομον, Εὐνόμου δὲ Πολυδέκτην ἐκ προτέρασ γυναικόσ, Λυκοῦργον δὲ νεώτερον ἐκ Διωνάσσησ, ὡσ Διευτυχίδασ ἱστόρηκεν, ἕκτον μὲν ἀπὸ Προκλέουσ, ἑνδέκατον δὲ ἀφ’ Ἡρακλέουσ. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 1 4:1)

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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