νομοθέτης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
νόμος (nómos, “law”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “lay”) + -της (-tēs)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /no.mo.tʰé.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /no.moˈtʰe.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /no.moˈθe.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /no.moˈθe.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /no.moˈθe.tis/
Noun
νομοθέτης • (nomothétēs) m (genitive νομοθέτου); first declension (Attic)
- legislator, lawmaker, lawgiver
Inflection
First declension of ὁ νομοθέτης; τοῦ νομοθέτου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ νομοθέτης ho nomothétēs | τὼ νομοθέτᾱ tṑ nomothétā | οἱ νομοθέται hoi nomothétai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ νομοθέτου toû nomothétou | τοῖν νομοθέταιν toîn nomothétain | τῶν νομοθετῶν tôn nomothetôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ νομοθέτῃ tôi nomothétēi | τοῖν νομοθέταιν toîn nomothétain | τοῖς νομοθέταις toîs nomothétais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν νομοθέτην tòn nomothétēn | τὼ νομοθέτᾱ tṑ nomothétā | τοὺς νομοθέτᾱς toùs nomothétās | ||||||||||
Vocative | νομοθέτᾰ nomothéta | νομοθέτᾱ nomothétā | νομοθέται nomothétai | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- νομοθεσία (nomothesía)
- νομοθετέω (nomothetéō)
- νομοθέτημα (nomothétēma)
- νομοθετητέος (nomothetētéos)
- νομοθετικός (nomothetikós)
Descendants
- → English: nomothete
- → French: nomothète
- Greek: νομοθέτης (nomothétis)
Further reading
- “νομοθέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νομοθέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νομοθέτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3550 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.
- law giver idem, page 479.
- legislator idem, page 485.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek νομοθέτης (nomothétēs).
Noun
νομοθέτης • (nomothétis) m (plural νομοθέτες, feminine νομοθέτις)
- legislator
- Σόλων ο νομοθέτης (Solon the legislator)
- legislature
Declension
declension of νομοθέτης
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | νομοθέτης • | νομοθέτες • |
genitive | νομοθέτη • | νομοθετών • |
accusative | νομοθέτη • | νομοθέτες • |
vocative | νομοθέτη • | νομοθέτες • |
Related terms
- see: νομοθεσία f (nomothesía, “legislation”)