τολμητής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τόλμα (tólma) +‎ -τής (-tḗs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tol.mɛː.tɛ̌ːs/ → /tol.miˈtis/ → /tol.miˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tol.mɛː.tɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tol.me̝ˈte̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tol.miˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tol.miˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tol.miˈtis/

Noun

τολμητής • (tolmētḗs) m (genitive τολμητοῦ); first declension

1. bold, adventurous person

Declension

First declension of ὁ τολμητής; τοῦ τολμητοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τολμητής ho tolmētḗs	τὼ τολμητᾱ́ tṑ tolmētā́	οἱ τολμηταί hoi tolmētaí
Genitive	τοῦ τολμητοῦ toû tolmētoû	τοῖν τολμηταῖν toîn tolmētaîn	τῶν τολμητῶν tôn tolmētôn
Dative	τῷ τολμητῇ tôi tolmētêi	τοῖν τολμηταῖν toîn tolmētaîn	τοῖς τολμηταῖς toîs tolmētaîs
Accusative	τὸν τολμητήν tòn tolmētḗn	τὼ τολμητᾱ́ tṑ tolmētā́	τοὺς τολμητᾱ́ς toùs tolmētā́s
Vocative	τολμητᾰ́ tolmētắ	τολμητᾱ́ tolmētā́	τολμηταί tolmētaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Quotations

• 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70:

  αὖθις δὲ οἱ μὲν καὶ παρὰ δύναμιν τολμηταὶ καὶ παρὰ γνώμην κινδυνευταὶ καὶ ἐν τοῖς δεινοῖς εὐέλπιδες

  aûthis dè hoi mèn kaì parà dúnamin tolmētaì kaì parà gnṓmēn kinduneutaì kaì en toîs deinoîs euélpides

• 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 2.72
• 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 20.9.1
• New Testament, Second Epistle of Peter 2:10b:

  τολμηταί, αὐθάδεις, δόξας οὐ τρέμουσι βλασφημοῦντες

  tolmētaí, authádeis, dóxas ou trémousi blasphēmoûntes

  • Translation by RSV

    Bold and wilful, they are not afraid to revile the glorious ones

• 350 CE – 500 CE, Adamantius, Treatise on Physiognomy 2.5
• Palatine Anthology 9.678

Further reading

• τολμητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “τολμητής”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “τολμητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G5113 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adventurer idem, page 14.
  • venturer idem, page 948.