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συγγυμναστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συγγυμναστής συγγυμναστοῦ

Structure: συγγυμναστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from suggumna/zw

Sense

  1. a companion in bodily exercises

Declension

First 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

  • ἢ ἐπ’ ἐκείνῳ γελᾶτε, ὅτι οὐ δεήσει με συγγυμναστὴν ζητεῖν, οὐδ’ ἐν ὄχλῳ πρεσβύτην ὄντα ἀποδύεσθαι, ἀλλ’ ἀρκέσει μοι οἶκοσ ἑπτάκλινοσ, ὥσπερ καὶ νῦν τῷδε τῷ παιδὶ ἤρκεσε τόδε τὸ οἴκημα ἐνιδρῶσαι, καὶ χειμῶνοσ μὲν ἐν στέγῃ γυμνάσομαι, ὅταν δὲ ἄγαν καῦμα ᾖ, ἐν σκιᾷ; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 2 19:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ Λακεδαίμονι πᾶσ μὲν ἄν τισ αἰσχυνθείη τὸν κακὸν σύσκηνον παραλαβεῖν, πᾶσ δ’ ἂν ἐν παλαίσματι συγγυμναστήν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 5:2)
  • ἂν δ’ ἄρα τι τοιοῦτον γίγνηται, καὶ τόνδε παραληψόμεθα Σωκράτη, τὸν Σωκράτουσ μὲν ὁμώνυμον, ἐμὸν δὲ ἡλικιώτην καὶ συγγυμναστήν, ᾧ συνδιαπονεῖν μετ’ ἐμοῦ τὰ πολλὰ οὐκ ἀήθεσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 14:2)
  • διαναπαύσωμεν αὐτὸν μεταλαβόντεσ αὐτοῦ τὸν συγγυμναστὴν τόνδε Σωκράτη; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 4:5)

Synonyms

  1. a companion in bodily exercises

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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