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πράκτωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πράκτωρ πράκτορος

Structure: πρακτορος (Stem)

Etym.: = prakth/r

Sense

  1. one who does or executes, an accomplisher
  2. one who exacts payment, a tax-gatherer
  3. one who exacts punishment, a punisher, avenger, avenging

Declension

Third 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

  • ἀπεσχοινισμένοσ πᾶσι τοῖσ ἐν τῇ πόλει δικαίοισ, γνώσει δικαστηρίων τριῶν, ἐγγραφῇ θεσμοθετῶν, ἑτέρᾳ πρακτόρων, τῇ τῆσ βουλεύσεωσ, ἣν αὐτὸσ διώκεισ, γραφῇ, μόνον οὐχ ἁλύσει σιδηρᾷ, ὑποδύει παρὰ ταῦτα καὶ διασπᾷσ, καὶ προφάσεισ πλάττων καὶ ψευδεῖσ αἰτίασ συντιθεὶσ τὰ κοινὰ δίκαι’ ἀνατρέψειν οἰεί. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 33:2)

Synonyms

  1. one who exacts payment

  2. one who exacts punishment

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

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