ἀποδημητής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀποδημέω (apodēméō) +‎ -τής (-tḗs)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.po.dɛː.mɛː.tɛ̌ːs/ → /a.po.ði.miˈtis/ → /a.po.ði.miˈtis/

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

Noun

ἀποδημητής • (apodēmētḗs) m (genitive ἀποδημητοῦ); first declension

1. one who goes abroad, expat

Declension

First declension of ὁ ᾰ̓ποδημητής; τοῦ ᾰ̓ποδημητοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̓ποδημητής ho ăpodēmētḗs	τὼ ᾰ̓ποδημητᾱ́ tṑ ăpodēmētā́	οἱ ᾰ̓ποδημηταί hoi ăpodēmētaí
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓ποδημητοῦ toû ăpodēmētoû	τοῖν ᾰ̓ποδημηταῖν toîn ăpodēmētaîn	τῶν ᾰ̓ποδημητῶν tôn ăpodēmētôn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓ποδημητῇ tôi ăpodēmētêi	τοῖν ᾰ̓ποδημηταῖν toîn ăpodēmētaîn	τοῖς ᾰ̓ποδημηταῖς toîs ăpodēmētaîs
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓ποδημητήν tòn ăpodēmētḗn	τὼ ᾰ̓ποδημητᾱ́ tṑ ăpodēmētā́	τοὺς ᾰ̓ποδημητᾱ́ς toùs ăpodēmētā́s
Vocative	ᾰ̓ποδημητᾰ́ ăpodēmētắ	ᾰ̓ποδημητᾱ́ ăpodēmētā́	ᾰ̓ποδημηταί ăpodēmētaí
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:

  καὶ μὴν καὶ ἄοκνοι πρὸς ὑμᾶς μελλητὰς καὶ ἀποδημηταὶ πρὸς ἐνδημοτάτους· οἴονται γὰρ οἱ μὲν τῇ ἀπουσίᾳ ἄν τι κτᾶσθαι, ὑμεῖς δὲ τῷ ἐπελθεῖν καὶ τὰ ἑτοῖμα ἂν βλάψαι.

  kaì mḕn kaì áoknoi pròs humâs mellētàs kaì apodēmētaì pròs endēmotátous; oíontai gàr hoi mèn têi apousíāi án ti ktâsthai, humeîs dè tôi epeltheîn kaì tà hetoîma àn blápsai.

Derived terms

• ἀποδημητικός (apodēmētikós)

Further reading

• ἀποδημητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀποδημητής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• ἀποδημητής in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• “ἀποδημητής”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἀποδημητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press