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τολμητής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τολμητής τολμητοῦ

Structure: τολμητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: tolma/w

Sense

  1. a bold, venturous man

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

  • αὖθισ δὲ οἳ μὲν καὶ παρὰ δύναμιν τολμηταὶ καὶ παρὰ γνώμην κινδυνευταὶ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ δεινοῖσ εὐέλπιδεσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 14 1:4)
  • οἳ μὲν καὶ παρὰ δύναμιν τολμηταί καὶ παρὰ γνώμην κινδυνευταί· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 174)
  • οὐδ’ ἀνάγκην προσάγειν τοῖσ διαφόροισ τὴν περὶ τῶν ἐσχάτων κινδύνων, δἰ ἣν καὶ παρὰ γνώμην τολμηταὶ γίνονταί τινεσ καὶ ὑπὲρ δύναμιν μαχηταί· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 19 3:2)
  • λογισάσθω δὴ πάλιν οἱο͂σ πρὸσ οἱούσ παρατάξεται, καὶ διότι Ιοὐδαῖοι μέν, εἰ καὶ σφόδρα τολμηταὶ καὶ θανάτου καταφρονοῦντεσ, ἀλλ’ ἀσύντακτοί τε καὶ πολέμων ἄπειροι καὶ ὄχλοσ ἂν ἄλλωσ, οὐ στρατιὰ λέγοιντο· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 565:1)

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

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