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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

  • καὶ παραδοξάσει Κύριοσ τὰσ πληγάσ σου καὶ τὰσ πληγὰσ τοῦ σπέρματόσ σου, πληγὰσ μεγάλασ καὶ θαυμαστάσ, καὶ νόσουσ πονηρὰσ καὶ πιστὰς (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 28:59)
  • ἐπήκουον οὖν τὰ λοιπὰ ἐπαντλοῦντοσ αὐτοῦ καὶ θαυμαστάσ τινασ ὑπερβολὰσ διεξιόντοσ κατὰ τοῦ Πρωτέωσ· (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 6:5)
  • οὐ γὰρ οὕτω λέγων ἄν τισ προσβιβάσειέν σε τῇ ἡδονῇ τῶν ἐκεῖ δρωμένων, ὡσ εἰ καθεζόμενοσ αὐτὸσ ἐν μέσοισ τοῖσ θεαταῖσ βλέποισ ἀρετὰσ ἀνδρῶν καὶ κάλλη σωμάτων καὶ εὐεξίασ θαυμαστὰσ καὶ ἐμπειρίασ δεινὰσ καὶ ἰσχὺν ἄμαχον καὶ τόλμαν καὶ φιλοτιμίαν καὶ γνώμασ ἀηττήτουσ καὶ σπουδὴν ἄλεκτον ὑπὲρ τῆσ νίκησ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 12:2)
  • ἢν δ’ ἐμοὶ πείθῃ, πρῶτον μέν σοι πολλὰ ἐπιδείξω παλαιῶν ἀνδρῶν ἔργα καὶ πράξεισ θαυμαστὰσ. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 7:20)
  • καὶ ποῦ ’στιν νῦν ὦ θαυμαστὰσ ἐξευρίσκων ἐπινοίασ; (Aristotle, Choral, anapests4)

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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