ἱκέτης

Ancient Greek

ῐ̔κνέομαι (hĭknéomai, “to come”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er”, masculine agent-noun suffix): literally, “comer”.

ῐ̔κέτης • (hĭkétēs) m (genitive ῐ̔κέτου); first declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic)

One who comes looking for aid or protection, suppliant
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 5.19
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 634
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.136
One who comes looking for purification after having murdered someone: common in the Iliad and Odyssey
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.158
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.270

First declension of ὁ ῐ̔κέτης; τοῦ ῐ̔κέτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῐ̔κέτης ho hĭkétēs	τὼ ῐ̔κέτᾱ tṑ hĭkétā	οἱ ῐ̔κέται hoi hĭkétai
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̔κέτου toû hĭkétou	τοῖν ῐ̔κέταιν toîn hĭkétain	τῶν ῐ̔κετῶν tôn hĭketôn
Dative	τῷ ῐ̔κέτῃ tōî hĭkétēi	τοῖν ῐ̔κέταιν toîn hĭkétain	τοῖς ῐ̔κέταις toîs hĭkétais
Accusative	τὸν ῐ̔κέτην tòn hĭkétēn	τὼ ῐ̔κέτᾱ tṑ hĭkétā	τοὺς ῐ̔κέτᾱς toùs hĭkétās
Vocative	ῐ̔κέτᾰ hĭkétă	ῐ̔κέτᾱ hĭkétā	ῐ̔κέται hĭkétai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

ἱκέτης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ἱκέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press