τολμητής
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τόλμα (tólma) + -τής (-tḗs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tol.mɛː.tɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tol.me̝ˈte̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tol.miˈtis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tol.miˈtis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tol.miˈtis/
Noun
τολμητής • (tolmētḗs) m (genitive τολμητοῦ); first declension
- bold, adventurous person
Declension
| 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 tōî tolmētēî |
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 | ||||||||||
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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
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- αὖθις δὲ οἱ μὲν καὶ παρὰ δύναμιν τολμηταὶ καὶ παρὰ γνώμην κινδυνευταὶ καὶ ἐν τοῖς δεινοῖς εὐέλπιδες
- 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
- τολμηταί, αὐθάδεις, δόξας οὐ τρέμουσι βλασφημοῦντες
- 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.