εὐεργέτης
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- εὐϝεργέτᾱς (euwergétās) — Thessalian
Etymology
From εὐ- (eu-, “well”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) + -της (-tēs, masculine agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eu̯.er.ɡé.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.werˈɡe.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.βerˈʝe.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.verˈʝe.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.verˈʝe.tis/
Noun
εὐεργέτης • (euergétēs) m (genitive εὐεργέτου); first declension
- A benefactor, euergetist (sometimes as honorary title)
- Synonym: (female equivalent) εὐεργέτῐς (euergétis, “benefactress”)
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:εὐεργέτης.
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ εὐεργέτης ho euergétēs |
τὼ εὐεργέτᾱ tṑ euergétā |
οἱ εὐεργέται hoi euergétai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ εὐεργέτου toû euergétou |
τοῖν εὐεργέταιν toîn euergétain |
τῶν εὐεργετῶν tôn euergetôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ εὐεργέτῃ tôi euergétēi |
τοῖν εὐεργέταιν toîn euergétain |
τοῖς εὐεργέταις toîs euergétais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν εὐεργέτην tòn euergétēn |
τὼ εὐεργέτᾱ tṑ euergétā |
τοὺς εὐεργέτᾱς toùs euergétās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | εὐεργέτᾰ euergéta |
εὐεργέτᾱ euergétā |
εὐεργέται euergétai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → French: évergète
- Greek: ευεργέτης (evergétis)
Further reading
- “εὐεργέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “εὐεργέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εὐεργέτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “εὐεργέτας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2110 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- benefactor idem, page 73.
- well-doer idem, page 974.
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