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θέτης?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: thetēs

Principal Part: θέτης θέτου

Structure: θετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. one who places
  2. mortgagor
  3. adoptive father of a child

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative θέτης θέτα θέται
Genitive θέτου θέταιν θετῶν
Dative θέτῃ θέταιν θέταις
Accusative θέτην θέτα θέτας
Vocative θέτα θέτα θέται

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

  • ἆρ οὖν, ὦ βέλτιστε, καὶ τὸ ἑκάστῳ φύσει πεφυκὸς ὄνομα τὸν νομοθέτην ἐκεῖνον εἰς τοὺς φθόγγους καὶ τὰς συλλαβὰς δεῖ ἐπίστασθαι τιθέναι, καὶ βλέποντα πρὸς αὐτὸ ἐκεῖνο ὃ ἔστιν ὄνομα, πάντα τὰ ὀνόματα ποιεῖν τε καὶ τίθεσθαι, εἰ μέλλει κύριος εἶναι ὀνομάτων θέτης· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 38:3)

Synonyms

  1. one who places

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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