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πρωταγωνιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρωταγωνιστής πρωταγωνιστοῦ

Structure: πρωταγωνιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. one who plays the first part, the chief actor

Examples

  • πρῶτον μὲν δή, εἰ δοκεῖ, παραγάγωμεν τὸν πρωταγωνιστὴν τοῦ δράματοσ, λέγω δὲ τὸν ποιητὴν τῆσ διαβολῆσ. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 7:1)
  • ἄτοπον γάρ ἐστι τὸν μὲν ἐν τραγῳδίᾳ γῳδίᾳ πρωταγωνιστήν, Θεόδωρον ἢ Πῶλον ὄντα μισθωτὸν τῷ τὰ τρίτα λέγοντι πολλάκισ ἕπεσθαι καὶ προσδιαλέγεσθαι ταπεινῶσ, ἂν ἐκεῖνοσ; (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 21 1:2)

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

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