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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

  • δόξασ δὲ καὶ τολμητὴσ καὶ φιλοκίνδυνοσ εἶναι πρὸσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἐν ἀρχῇ παῖσ Ἄρεοσ ὠνομάζετο, ταχὺ δὲ τοῖσ ἔργοισ ἐλεγχόμενοσ αὖθισ Ἀφροδίτησ υἱὸσ ἐκαλεῖτο. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 46 6:1)
  • ὁ δὲ νεώτεροσ Ἄνανοσ, ὃν τὴν ἀρχιερωσύνην ἔφαμεν εἰληφέναι, θρασὺσ ἦν τὸν τρόπον καὶ τολμητὴσ διαφερόντωσ, αἱρ́εσιν δὲ μετῄει τὴν Σαδδουκαίων, οἵπερ εἰσὶ περὶ τὰσ κρίσεισ ὠμοὶ παρὰ πάντασ τοὺσ Ιοὐδαίουσ, καθὼσ ἤδη δεδηλώκαμεν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 20 245:1)

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

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