ἐξώστης

From ἐξωθέω (exōthéō, “force out”) (from ἐξ- (ex-) + ὠθέω (ōthéō)) + -της (-tēs).

ἐξώστης • (exṓstēs) m (genitive ἐξώστου); first declension

1. one who drives out,
   1. epithet of Ἄρης (Árēs)
      • c. 440 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 322
   2. of winds: ἐξῶσται ἄνεμοι (ánemoi) violent winds driving -ships- away
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.113.1
      • Hipp, VM 9
        c.460 BCE – c.370 BCE, Hippocrates, On ancient medicine, 9.
      • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 1.3
   3. (Koine, medicine) of pulse: coined by Archigenes
      • 2nd century CE, Archigenes, Apud Galenum, Aëtium, Oribasium, 8.662.
2. (Koine) Hesychius gives the definition as: platform of a ship or for docking ships
   • 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον Σ
     lemma σταθμηλάται (stathmēlátai): ἐξῶσται (exôstai) νεῶν (neôn, “of ships”) ("platforms of ships")
3. (Koine, theater) balcony
4. (Byzantine) balcony

• Greek: εξώστης (exóstis)

• “ἐξώστης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐξώστης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἐξώστης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011