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χρήστης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρήστης χρήστου

Structure: χρηστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: gen. pl. xrh/stwn (not xrhstw=n, to distinguish it from the gen. pl. of xrhsto/s.)

Sense

  1. a creditor, usurer, dun
  2. a debtor

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

  • ὁπότε γὰρ ἀφεθείην ὑπὸ τῶν διδασκάλων, ἀποξέων ἂν τὸν κηρὸν ἢ βόασ ἢ ἵππουσ ἢ καὶ νὴ ἀνθρώπουσ ἀνέπλαττον, εἰκότασ,^ ὡσ ἐδόκουν τῷ πατρί ἐφ’ οἷσ παρὰ μὲν τῶν διδασκάλων πληγὰσ ἐλάμβανον, τότε δὲ ἔπαινοσ εἰσ τὴν εὐφυίαν καὶ ταῦτα ἦν, καὶ χρηστὰσ εἶχον ἐπ’ ἐμοὶ τὰσ ἐλπίδασ ὡσ ἐν βραχεῖ μαθήσομαι τὴν τέχνην, ἀπ’ ἐκείνησ γε τῆσ πλαστικῆσ. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 2:5)
  • οὐ γὰρ τούτων ἐπιθυμῶ, ἀλλ’ ὅσ’ ἐμαυτῷ στρεψοδικῆσαι καὶ τοὺσ χρήστασ διολισθεῖν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Choral, anapests 1:27)
  • "ὑγιείασ μέροσ μέγιστον ὀσμὰσ ἐγκεφάλῳ χρηστὰσ ποιεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 1:3)
  • μέγιστον ὀσμὰσ ἐγκεφάλῳ χρηστὰσ ποιεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 24 4:1)
  • τούτουσ οὖν ὁρῶν ἐγὼ χρηστὰσ εἶχον εἰσ τοὐπιὸν τὰσ ἐλπίδασ· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 31:5)

Synonyms

  1. a debtor

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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