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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

  • μάλα τινάσ, ὦ Μένιππε, τολμητὰσ καὶ θαυματοποιοὺσ ἄνδρασ λέγεισ. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 8:4)
  • ἐκ τούτου διαπειρώμενοι κρύφα τῶν γνωρίμων οἷσ ἐπίστευον ἀνεκοινοῦντο καὶ προσελάμβανον, οὐ μόνον τῶν συνήθων ποιούμενοι τὴν αἱρ́εσιν, ἀλλ’ ὅσουσ ἠπίσταντο τολμητὰσ ὄντασ ἀγαθοὺσ καὶ θανάτου καταφρονητάσ. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 12 1:1)

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

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