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Ancient Greek
Etymology
ἐφίημι (ephíēmi, “to command”) + -της (-tēs, “-er”, masculine agent-noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.pʰé.tɛːs/ → /eˈɸe.tis/ → /eˈfe.tis/
Noun
ἐφέτης • (ephétēs) m (genitive ἐφέτου); first declension
- commander
472 BCE,
Aeschylus,
The Persians 78–79:
- ἐχυροῖσι πεποιθὼς / στυφελοῖς ἐφέταις
- ekhuroîsi pepoithṑs / stupheloîs ephétais
- trusting in his secure, / harsh generals
- (in the plural) the Ephetae, a court that judged homicide cases, in ancient Athens
- judge of appeals
Declension
Further reading
- ἐφέτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ἐφέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐφέτης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011