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προσαίτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσαίτης προσαίτου

Structure: προσαιτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from prosaite/w

Sense

  1. a beggar

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

  • " ἐρωτηθεὶσ διὰ τί προσαίταισ μὲν ἐπιδιδόασι, φιλοσόφοισ δὲ οὔ, ἔφη, "ὅτι χωλοὶ μὲν καὶ τυφλοὶ γενέσθαι ἐλπίζουσι, φιλοσοφῆσαι δ’ οὐδέποτε. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. b'. DIOGENHS 37:2)

Synonyms

  1. a beggar

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

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