ἀθλητής
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See also: αθλητής
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō, “to contend”) + -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /aː.tʰlɛː.tɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.tʰle̝ˈte̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.θliˈtis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.θliˈtis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.θliˈtis/
Noun
[edit]ἀθλητής • (athlētḗs) m (genitive ᾱ̓θλητοῦ); first declension
- a combatant, champion, especially a prizefighter
- (as an adjective) pertaining to competition
- (with genitive) practiced in, master of
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ᾱ̓θλητής ho āthlētḗs |
τὼ ᾱ̓θλητᾱ́ tṑ āthlētā́ |
οἱ ᾱ̓θληταί hoi āthlētaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾱ̓θλητοῦ toû āthlētoû |
τοῖν ᾱ̓θληταῖν toîn āthlētaîn |
τῶν ᾱ̓θλητῶν tôn āthlētôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾱ̓θλητῇ tôi āthlētêi |
τοῖν ᾱ̓θληταῖν toîn āthlētaîn |
τοῖς ᾱ̓θληταῖς toîs āthlētaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ᾱ̓θλητήν tòn āthlētḗn |
τὼ ᾱ̓θλητᾱ́ tṑ āthlētā́ |
τοὺς ᾱ̓θλητᾱ́ς toùs āthlētā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾱ̓θλητᾰ́ āthlētá |
ᾱ̓θλητᾱ́ āthlētā́ |
ᾱ̓θληταί āthlētaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- ἀθλητικός (athlētikós)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ἀθλητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀθλητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀθλητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀθλητής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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