ἀθλητής

• ἀθλητήρ (athlētḗr) — Epic

From ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō, “to contend”) +‎ -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).

ἀθλητής • (athlētḗs) m (genitive ᾱ̓θλητοῦ); first declension

1. a combatant, champion, especially a prizefighter
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 5.90
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.95
   1. (as an adjective) pertaining to competition
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 157.39
      • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Parmenides 137A
2. (with genitive) practiced in, master of
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 543B
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1 97
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 6.7.3:

     ἐκκεκριμένους δὲ ἐκ παίδων ἀθλητὰς εἶναι αὐτοὺς τῶν ἔργων:

     ekkekriménous dè ek paídōn athlētàs eînai autoùs tôn érgōn:

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• ἀθλητικός (athlētikós)

• Greek: αθλητής (athlitís)
• Latin: āthlēta
  • English: athlete
• Russian: атлет (atlet)

• “ἀθλητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀθλητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀθλητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀθλητής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • athlete idem, page 49.
  • gymnast idem, page 380.
  • sportsman idem, page 804.