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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

  • πολλὰ γὰρ τῶν καθ’ αὑτὰ φαινομένων καλῶν καὶ θαυμαστῶν ἑτέροισ ἀντιπαρατεθέντα κρείττοσιν ἐλάττω τῆσ δόξησ ἐφάνη. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 1 7:3)
  • ὥστε κινδυνεύεισ, ὦ γενναῖε, ἀντὶ τῶν θαυμαστῶν λόγων τὸν πώγωνα καὶ τὸν τρίβωνα μεμισθωκέναι. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 25:9)
  • ἀλλὰ οἶδα ὅθεν μοι ταῦτα, παρὰ τῶν θαυμαστῶν σου φιλοσόφων, Ζηνοθέμιδοσ καὶ Λαβυρίνθου, ὧν ‐ ἀπείη δὲ ἡ Ἀδράστεια ‐ συλλογισμῷ ἑνὶ ἀποφράξαι ἄν μοι τάχιστα δοκῶ τὰ στόματα. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 23:3)
  • τῶν δὲ μεγάλων καὶ θαυμαστῶν ἐπαίνων οἷσ πολλαχοῦ χρῆται περὶ τοῦ ἀνδρόσ, καὶ ὅτι περὶ οὓσ μάλιστα τῶν ἰδίων ἐσπούδασε λόγων, τοὺσ κατ’ Ἀντωνίου, Φιλιππικοὺσ ἐπέγραψεν, ἀμνημονοῦσι. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 24 4:2)
  • ἀρχικὸν γὰρ τὸ φρονεῖν, ἔστιν δ’ ἡ σοφία πολλῶν καὶ θαυμαστῶν ἐπιστήμη. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 11 27:3)

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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