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ζητητής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζητητής ζητητοῦ

Structure: ζητητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: zhte/w

Sense

  1. a seeker, inquirer
  2. commissioners to inquire into state-offences

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

  • ἦσθα ζητητήσ, ὦ Διόγνητε, ὅτε Πυθόνικοσ εἰσήγγειλεν ἐν τῷ δήμῳ περὶ Ἀλκιβιάδου; (Andocides, Speeches, 26:1)
  • ἔνθα δή, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ὦ φίλε Γλαύκων, ὁ πᾶσ κίνδυνοσ ἀνθρώπῳ, καὶ διὰ ταῦτα μάλιστα ἐπιμελητέον ὅπωσ ἕκαστοσ ἡμῶν τῶν ἄλλων μαθημάτων ἀμελήσασ τούτου τοῦ μαθήματοσ καὶ ζητητὴσ καὶ μαθητὴσ ἔσται, ἐάν ποθεν οἱο͂́σ τ’ ᾖ μαθεῖν καὶ ἐξευρεῖν τίσ αὐτὸν ποιήσει δυνατὸν καὶ ἐπιστήμονα, βίον καὶ χρηστὸν καὶ πονηρὸν διαγιγνώσκοντα, τὸν βελτίω ἐκ τῶν δυνατῶν ἀεὶ πανταχοῦ αἱρεῖσθαι· (Plato, Republic, book 10 457:2)

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

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