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πρεσβευτής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρεσβευτής πρεσβευτοῦ

Structure: πρεσβευτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: presbeu/w

Sense

  1. an ambassador
  2. an agent or commissioner

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πρεσβευτής πρεσβευτᾱ́ πρεσβευταί
Genitive πρεσβευτοῦ πρεσβευταῖν πρεσβευτῶν
Dative πρεσβευτῇ πρεσβευταῖν πρεσβευταῖς
Accusative πρεσβευτήν πρεσβευτᾱ́ πρεσβευτᾱ́ς
Vocative πρεσβευτά πρεσβευτᾱ́ πρεσβευταί

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

  • οἱ πρεσβευταὶ οἱ ἀποσταλέντεσ πρὸσ τὸν δῆμον ἡμῶν ἀπήγγειλαν ἡμῖν περὶ τῆσ δόξησ ὑμῶν καὶ τιμῆσ, καὶ ηὐφράνθημεν ἐπὶ τῇ ἐφόδῳ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 14:21)
  • καὶ ἀνεγράψαμεν τὰ ὑπ̓ αὐτῶν εἰρημένα ἐν ταῖσ βουλαῖσ τοῦ δήμου οὕτωσ. Νουμήνιοσ Ἀντιόχου καὶ Ἀντίπατροσ Ἰάσωνοσ πρεσβευταὶ Ἰουδαίων ἤλθοσαν πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ ἀνανεούμενοι τὴν πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ φιλίαν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 14:22)
  • οἱ πρεσβευταὶ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἦλθον πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ, φίλοι ἡμῶν καὶ σύμμαχοι, ἀνανεούμενοι τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ φιλίαν καὶ συμμαχίαν, ἀπεσταλμένοι ἀπὸ Σίμωνοσ τοῦ ἀρχιερέωσ καὶ τοῦ δήμου τῶν Ἰουδαίων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 15:17)
  • "εἰ μὲν ὡσ πρεσβευταί, πολλοὶ πάρεισιν εἰ δ’ ὡσ στρατιῶται, ὀλίγοι. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 27 4:2)
  • Γάλβασ δὲ καὶ Ὁρτήσιοσ οἱ πρεσβευταὶ σπείρασ ἐπιτάκτουσ ἔχοντεσ ἔσχατοι παρενέβαλον ἐπὶ τῶν ἄκρων φύλακεσ πρὸσ τὰσ κυκλώσεισ· (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 17 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. an ambassador

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

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