Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative προσαίτης προσαίτᾱ προσαῖται
Genitive προσαίτου προσαίταιν προσαιτῶν
Dative προσαίτῃ προσαίταιν προσαίταις
Accusative προσαίτην προσαίτᾱ προσαίτᾱς
Vocative προσαῖτα προσαίτᾱ προσαῖται

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

  • ἀλλὰ κἀκεῖνοσ μὲν ἦν χωλὸσ προσαιτῶν στωμύλοσ δεινὸσ λέγειν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:26)
  • νῦν δὴ γενοῦ γλίσχροσ προσαιτῶν λιπαρῶν τ’. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:44)
  • εἶτ’ ὦ Λάκωνεσ, πρὸσ γὰρ ὑμᾶσ τρέψομαι, οὐκ ἴσθ’ ὅτ’ ἐλθὼν δεῦρο Περικλείδασ ποτὲ ὁ Λάκων Ἀθηναίων ἱκέτησ καθέζετο ἐπὶ τοῖσι βωμοῖσ ὠχρὸσ ἐν φοινικίδι στρατιὰν προσαιτῶν; (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, anapests 1:12)
  • μὰ Δί’, εἰπεῖν αὐτόν, ὦ Ἑρμόγενεσ, ἐγὼ ταῦτα οὐδὲ προθυμήσομαι, ἀλλ’ ὅσων νομίζω τετυχηκέναι καλῶν καὶ παρὰ θεῶν καὶ παρ’ ἀνθρώπων, καὶ ἣν ἐγὼ δόξαν ἔχω περὶ ἐμαυτοῦ, ταύτην ἀναφαίνων εἰ βαρυνῶ τοὺσ δικαστάσ, αἱρήσομαι τελευτᾶν μᾶλλον ἢ ἀνελευθέρωσ τὸ ζῆν ἔτι προσαιτῶν κερδᾶναι τὸν πολὺ χείρω βίον ἀντὶ θανάτου. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, 10:1)
  • ὁ δὲ μήτε ἄλλην τέχνην χρηματοποιὸν ἐπιστάμενοσ μήτε γεωργεῖν ἐθέλων φανερὸν ὅτι κλέπτων ἢ ἁρπάζων ἢ προσαιτῶν διανοεῖται βιοτεύειν, ἢ παντάπασιν ἀλόγιστόσ ἐστι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 20 16:3)

Synonyms

  1. a beggar

Similar forms

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION