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θαυμαστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θαυμαστής θαυμαστοῦ

Structure: θαυμαστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: qauma/zw

Sense

  1. an admirer

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative θαυμαστής θαυμαστᾱ́ θαυμασταί
Genitive θαυμαστοῦ θαυμασταῖν θαυμαστῶν
Dative θαυμαστῇ θαυμασταῖν θαυμασταῖς
Accusative θαυμαστήν θαυμαστᾱ́ θαυμαστᾱ́ς
Vocative θαυμαστά θαυμαστᾱ́ θαυμασταί

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

  • τῆσ Λεωνίδου γυναικὸσ καὶ Τιμοκλείασ τῆσ Θεαγένουσ ἀδελφῆσ καὶ Κλαυδίασ τῆσ παλαιᾶσ, καὶ Κορνηλίασ τῆσ Σκιπίωνοσ καὶ ὅσαι ἐγένοντο θαυμασταὶ καὶ περιβόητοι, ταῦτα δ’ ἔξεστι περικειμένην προῖκα καὶ κοσμουμένην αὐτοῖσ ἐνδόξωσ ἅμα βιοῦν καὶ μακαρίωσ. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 48 14:1)
  • ἐξετάσωμεν δὴ παρὰ τοῦτον τὸν διάλογον τὸν οὕτω καλῶσ καὶ περιττῶσ ἔχοντα ἕτερον αὐτοῦ διάλογον, ὃν μάλιστα ἐπαινοῦσιν οἱ τοῦ χαρακτῆροσ τούτου θαυμασταί. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 371)
  • μεγάλαι τε γάρ εἰσι καὶ τὸ πάχοσ θαυμασταί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 53 2:1)
  • ὀδμαὶ δὲ θαυμασταὶ τὰσ ὄχθασ ἀπὸ θυμιαμάτων πολλῶν κατεῖχον. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 26 2:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐριζόμεναι νᾶεσ ἐν πόντῳ καὶ <ὑφ’> ἁρ́μασιν ἵπποι διὰ τεάν, ὤνασσα, τιμὰν ὠκυδινάτοισ ἐν ἁμίλλαισι θαυμασταὶ πέλονται· (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 5 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. an admirer

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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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