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τιμωρός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τιμωρός τιμωρόν

Structure: τιμωρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: timh/, a)ei/rw

Sense

  1. upholding honour;
  2. helping, aiding, succouring, a helper, aider, tutelary
  3. assisting one who has suffered wrong, avenging, an avenger, helping, to vengeance for, for vengeance

Declension

First/Second 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

  • οὔκουν τραφέντων τῶνδε τιμωροὺσ ἐμοὺσ χρῄζω λιπέσθαι τῶν δεδραμένων δίκην. (Euripides, Heracles, episode16)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ ὣσ ἐμνηστεύοντό τινεσ τὰσ παῖδασ διὰ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸσ ἀρετήν, ἐκώλυσαν οἱ ἐχθροὶ διὰ ψηφίσματοσ μνηστεύεσθαί τινασ τὰσ κόρασ, λέγοντεσ ὡσ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτῶν Δαμοκρίτα πολλάκισ εὔξατο τὰσ θυγατέρασ ταχέωσ γεννῆσαι παῖδασ τιμωροὺσ τῷ πατρὶ γενησομένουσ. (Plutarch, Amatoriae narrationes, chapter 5 5:1)
  • τιμωροὺσ ἀποστᾶσι βασιλέωσ, ἀρχεκάκουσ τολμήσασ προσειπεῖν ὅτι τοσαύτασ πόλεισ καὶ τηλικαύτασ Ἑλληνίδασ ἐλευθεροῦν ἐπεχείρησαν ἀπὸ τῶν βαρβάρων, Ἐρετριέων δὲ κομιδῇ μνησθεὶσ ἐν παρέργῳ καὶ παρασιωπήσασ μέγα κατόρθωμα καὶ ἀοίδιμον. (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 24 1:1)
  • "ἄλλουσ δὲ τῶν ὑπερηφάνων καὶ μεγάλων τιμωροὺσ ἀδικιῶν περιπολεῖν. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 1311)
  • ἔπειτ’, ἐὰν μὲν ἔνοχον εὑρ́ητέ με ταῖσ αἰτίαισ, ἐφ’ αἷσ ὁ δῆμοσ κατεψηφίσατό μου, πονηρὰν καὶ ἀσχήμονα τελευτὴν δοῦναι τοῦ βίου, ἐὰν δ’ ἐν ἅπασιν, οἷσ ἐπιστεύθην ὑπὸ τῆσ πατρίδοσ ἐν εἰρήνῃ τε καὶ κατὰ πολέμουσ, εὐσεβῆ καὶ δίκαιον καὶ πάσησ ἀσχήμονοσ ὑποψίασ καθαρόν, τιμωροὺσ γενέσθαι μοι, τοιούτουσ ἐπιστήσαντασ τοῖσ ἠδικηκόσι κινδύνουσ καὶ φόβουσ, δι’ οὓσ ἀναγκασθήσονται μηδεμίαν ἄλλην ἐλπίδα σωτηρίασ ὁρῶντεσ ἐπ’ ἐμὲ καταφυγεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 13, chapter 5 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. upholding honour

Related

Similar forms

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

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