ἐξώστης

See also: εξώστης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐξωθέω (exōthéō, “force out”) (from ἐξ- (ex-) + ὠθέω (ōthéō)) + -της (-tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ek.sɔ̌ːs.tɛːs/ → /ekˈsos.tis/ → /ekˈsos.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ek.sɔ̌ːs.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ekˈsos.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ekˈsos.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ekˈsos.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ekˈsos.tis/

Noun

ἐξώστης • (exṓstēs) m (genitive ἐξώστου); first declension

1. one who drives out,
   1. epithet of Ἄρης (Árēs)
      • c. 440 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 322
   2. of winds: ἐξῶσται ἄνεμοι (ánemoi) violent winds driving -ships- away
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.113.1
      • Hipp, VM 9
        c.460 BCE – c.370 BCE, Hippocrates, On ancient medicine, 9.
      • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 1.3
   3. (Koine, medicine) of pulse: coined by Archigenes
      • 2nd century CE, Archigenes, Apud Galenum, Aëtium, Oribasium, 8.662.
2. (Koine) Hesychius gives the definition as: platform of a ship or for docking ships
   • 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον Σ
     lemma σταθμηλάται (stathmēlátai): ἐξῶσται (exôstai) νεῶν (neôn, “of ships”) ("platforms of ships")
3. (Koine, theater) balcony
4. (Byzantine) balcony

Declension

First declension of ὁ ἐξώστης; τοῦ ἐξώστου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἐξώστης ho exṓstēs	τὼ ἐξώστᾱ tṑ exṓstā	οἱ ἐξῶσται hoi exôstai
Genitive	τοῦ ἐξώστου toû exṓstou	τοῖν ἐξώσταιν toîn exṓstain	τῶν ἐξωστῶν tôn exōstôn
Dative	τῷ ἐξώστῃ tôi exṓstēi	τοῖν ἐξώσταιν toîn exṓstain	τοῖς ἐξώσταις toîs exṓstais
Accusative	τὸν ἐξώστην tòn exṓstēn	τὼ ἐξώστᾱ tṑ exṓstā	τοὺς ἐξώστᾱς toùs exṓstās
Vocative	ἐξῶστᾰ exôsta	ἐξώστᾱ exṓstā	ἐξῶσται exôstai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• ἀντέξωσις (antéxōsis)
• ἀσυνέξωστος (asunéxōstos)
• ἔξωσις (éxōsis)
• ἔξωσμα (éxōsma)
• ἐξωστικός (exōstikós)
• ἐξώστρᾱ (exṓstrā)
• ἐξωστῷον (exōstôion)

 

Descendants

• Greek: εξώστης (exóstis)

Further reading

• “ἐξώστης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐξώστης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἐξώστης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011