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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εὐ- (eu-, “well”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) + -της (-tēs, masculine agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eu̯.er.ɡé.tɛːs/ → /e.βerˈʝe.tis/ → /e.verˈʝe.tis/
Noun
εὐεργέτης • (euergétēs) m (genitive εὐεργέτου); first declension
- A benefactor, euergetist (sometimes as honorary title)
- Synonym: (female equivalent) εὐεργέτῐς (euergétis, “benefactress”)
Declension
Descendants
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.