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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

  • εἶθ̓ οὕτωσ ἐπιφανῆναι ἄνδρα πολιᾷ καὶ δόξῃ διαφέροντα, θαυμαστὴν δέ τινα καὶ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτην εἶναι τὴν περὶ αὐτὸν ὑπεροχήν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:13)
  • καίτοι τί δεῖ καινὴν ἐπὶ σὲ κατηγορίαν ζητεῖν μετὰ τὴν θαυμαστὴν τραγῳδίαν λέγουσαν μισῶ σοφιστήν, ὅστισ οὐχ αὑτῷ σοφόσ; (Lucian, Apologia 13:1)
  • "ὅτεπερ καὶ τὴν θαυμαστὴν σοφίαν τῶν Χριστιανῶν ἐξέμαθεν, περὶ τὴν Παλαιστίνην τοῖσ ἱερεῦσιν καὶ γραμματεῦσιν αὐτῶν ξυγγενόμενοσ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:10)
  • "τρίτη ἐπὶ τούτοισ ἀποδημία εἰσ Αἴγυπτον παρὰ τὸν Ἀγαθόβουλον, ἵναπερ τὴν θαυμαστὴν ἄσκησιν διησκεῖτο, ξυρόμενοσ μὲν τῆσ κεφαλῆσ τὸ ἥμισυ, χριόμενοσ δὲ πηλῷ τὸ πρόσωπον, ἐν πολλῷ δὲ τῶν περιεστώτων δήμῳ ἀναφλῶν τὸ αἰδοῖον καὶ τὸ ἀδιάφορον δὴ τοῦτο καλούμενον ἐπιδεικνύμενοσ, εἶτα παίων καὶ παιόμενοσ νάρθηκι εἰσ τὰσ πυγὰσ καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ νεανικώτερα θαυματοποιῶν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:39)
  • τῶν δὲ πραγμάτων ποιούμενοσ τὴν ἐξέτασιν, τὴν μὲν εὑρ́εσιν θαυμαστὴν παρ’ ἀμφοῖν κατελαβόμην καὶ ἔτι τὴν κρίσιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 122)

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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