θεατής

Ancient Greek

θεάομαι (theáomai, “to gaze at”) +‎ -της (-tēs, masculine agent noun suffix)

θεᾱτής • (theātḗs) m (genitive θεᾱτοῦ); first declension (Attic, Koine)

one who sees or goes to see
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.139
spectator, member of the audience in the theater
- 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 575
one who contemplates
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1098a.31

First declension of ὁ θεᾱτής; τοῦ θεᾱτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θεᾱτής ho theātḗs	τὼ θεᾱτᾱ́ tṑ theātā́	οἱ θεᾱταί hoi theātaí
Genitive	τοῦ θεᾱτοῦ toû theātoû	τοῖν θεᾱταῖν toîn theātaîn	τῶν θεᾱτῶν tôn theātôn
Dative	τῷ θεᾱτῇ tōî theātēî	τοῖν θεᾱταῖν toîn theātaîn	τοῖς θεᾱταῖς toîs theātaîs
Accusative	τὸν θεᾱτήν tòn theātḗn	τὼ θεᾱτᾱ́ tṑ theātā́	τοὺς θεᾱτᾱ́ς toùs theātā́s
Vocative	θεᾱτᾰ́ theātắ	θεᾱτᾱ́ theātā́	θεᾱταί theātaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“θεατής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

θεατής • (theatís) m (plural θεατές)