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ῥήτωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥήτωρ ῥήτορος

Structure: ῥητωρ (Stem)

Etym.: e)re/w, e)rw=

Sense

  1. orator, public speaker
  2. politician, statesman
  3. attorney, court advocate
  4. judge
  5. rhetorician

Declension

Third declension

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

  • συνετὰ μέντοι πάντα καὶ κόσμια καὶ κατὰ τὸν Ὁμήρου ἐκεῖνον ῥήτορα· (Lucian, (no name) 7:3)
  • καὶ ἔγωγέ φημι χρῆναι τοὺσ μέλλοντασ οὐχὶ μέροσ τι τῆσ πολιτικῆσ δυνάμεωσ ἀλλ’ ὅλην αὐτὴν κτήσασθαι τοῦτον ἔχειν τὸν ῥήτορα διὰ χειρόσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 4 1:2)
  • δεῖται δή σου ἐπ’ ἐκεῖνα μὲν οὐδαμῶσ, ἐπεὶ δὲ πώγωνα ἔχεισ βαθὺν καὶ σεμνόσ τισ εἶ τὴν πρόσοψιν καὶ ἱμάτιον Ἑλληνικὸν εὐσταλῶσ περιβέβλησαι καὶ πάντεσ ἴσασί σε γραμματικὸν ἢ ῥήτορα ἢ φιλόσοφον, καλὸν αὐτῷ δοκεῖ ἀναμεμῖχθαι καὶ τοιοῦτόν τινα τοῖσ προϊοῦσι καὶ προπομπεύουσιν αὐτοῦ· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 25:7)
  • οἶδα δ’ ἐγὼ καὶ ῥήτορα τῶν καρχάρων ἐπὶ τῷ δείπνῳ κελευσθέντα μελετήσαντα μὰ τὸν Δί’ οὐκ ἀπαιδεύτωσ, ἀλλὰ πάνυ τορῶσ καὶ συγκεκροτημένωσ· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 35:2)
  • φημὶ δὴ πάντων δεξιώτατον εἶναι τὸν ῥήτορα κατὰ τὰσ εἰσβολὰσ τῶν λόγων καὶ χαριέστατον, ἐννοούμενοσ, ὅτι ἄρξασθαι μὲν καλῶσ οὐ ῥᾴδιόν ἐστιν, εἰ δή τισ τῇ προσηκούσῃ χρῆσθαι βούλοιτο ἀρχῇ καὶ μὴ τὸν ἐπιτυχόντα λόγον εἰπεῖν οὐ γὰρ τὸ πρῶτον ῥηθέν, ἀλλ’ ὃ τοῦ προτεθέντοσ λόγου μηδαμοῦ μᾶλλον ἢ ἐπὶ πρώτου ὠφελήσειε, τοῦτο ἀρχή τε καὶ προοίμιον, ὁρῶν δὲ τὸν ῥήτορα πᾶσι κεχρημένον, οἷσ τέχναι τε παραγγέλλουσι καὶ τὰ πράγματα βούλεται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 171)
  • καὶ μὴν ῥήτορά τε καὶ γεωμέτρην καὶ χαλκέα οὐδὲν κωλύει τὴν ἑαυτοῦ τέχνην ἐργάζεσθαι ἐάν τε· (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 25:1)

Synonyms

  1. orator

  2. judge

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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