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χρηματιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρηματιστής χρηματιστοῦ

Structure: χρηματιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: xrhmati/zw

Sense

  1. a man in business, money-getter, trafficker

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

  • ἦν δὲ καὶ περὶ τἆλλα χρηματιστὴσ ἀργότεροσ, εὐδάπανοσ δὲ καὶ ἀφειδὴσ ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων, οὐ πολλὰ δ’ ἦν, ἀλλὰ καὶ φερνῆσ ὀφειλομένησ τῇ γυναικὶ μετὰ τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῦ γλίσχρωσ ἐξήρκεσεν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 4 3:1)
  • γέγονε δὲ καὶ πατὴρ ἀγαθὸσ καὶ περὶ γυναῖκα χρηστὸσ ἀνὴρ καὶ χρηματιστὴσ οὐκ εὐκαταφρόνητοσ οὐδ’ ὥσ τι μικρὸν ἢ φαῦλον ἐν παρέργῳ μεταχειρισάμενοσ τὴν τοιαύτην ἐπιμέλειαν. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 20 1:1)
  • καίτοι πάντασ οἶμαι τοῦθ’ ὑμᾶσ εἰδέναι, τίσ ἦν χρηματιστὴσ ὁ πατήρ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 34:1)
  • σύντονον δὲ αὐτὸν γεγονέναι χρηματιστὴν οἱ μέν τινέσ φασι δι’ ἐλευθεριότητα· (Plutarch, , chapter 5 1:1)
  • παρ’ ὧν ἂν καὶ σὲ οἶμαι, εἰ βούλοιο, μαθόντα, εἴ σοι ὁ θεὸσ μὴ ἐναντιοῖτο, πάνυ ἂν δεινὸν χρηματιστὴν γενέσθαι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 2 19:2)
  • ὁ δὲ χρηματιστὴσ βίαιόσ τισ ἐστίν, καὶ ὁ πλοῦτοσ δῆλον ὅτι οὐ τὸ ζητούμενον ἀγαθόν· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 33:1)
  • οὐ τὰ αὑτοῦ ἄρα ἔτι πράττει ὁ χρηματιστήσ. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 172:2)

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

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