ὀφειλέτης
See also: οφειλέτης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὀφείλω (opheílō).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.pʰeː.lé.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /o.pʰiˈle.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /o.ɸiˈle.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /o.fiˈle.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /o.fiˈle.tis/
Noun
ὀφειλέτης • (opheilétēs) m (genitive ὀφειλέτου); first declension
- a debtor
- (with copulative verb) to be under an obligation
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax §590
- ἄγαν γε λυπεῖς: οὐ κάτοισθ᾽ ἐγὼ θεοῖς
ὡς οὐδὲν ἀρκεῖν εἴμ᾽ ὀφειλέτης ἔτι; (590–91)
- ἄγαν γε λυπεῖς: οὐ κάτοισθ᾽ ἐγὼ θεοῖς
- (Koine) Epistle to the Romans, 8:12
- Ἄρα οὖν, ἀδελφοί, ὀφειλέται ἐσμὲν οὐ τῇ σαρκὶ τοῦ κατὰ σάρκα ζῆν...
- (New Testament, fig.) a sinner
- Gospel of Luke, 13:4
- ...δοκεῖτε ὅτι αὐτοὶ ὀφειλέται ἐγένοντο παρὰ πάντας τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Ἰερουσαλήμ;
- Gospel of Luke, 13:4
Inflection
First declension of ὁ ὀφειλέτης; τοῦ ὀφειλέτου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὀφειλέτης ho opheilétēs | τὼ ὀφειλέτᾱ tṑ opheilétā | οἱ ὀφειλέται hoi opheilétai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὀφειλέτου toû opheilétou | τοῖν ὀφειλέταιν toîn opheilétain | τῶν ὀφειλετῶν tôn opheiletôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὀφειλέτῃ tôi opheilétēi | τοῖν ὀφειλέταιν toîn opheilétain | τοῖς ὀφειλέταις toîs opheilétais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὀφειλέτην tòn opheilétēn | τὼ ὀφειλέτᾱ tṑ opheilétā | τοὺς ὀφειλέτᾱς toùs opheilétās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀφειλέτᾰ opheiléta | ὀφειλέτᾱ opheilétā | ὀφειλέται opheilétai | ||||||||||
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References
- “ὀφειλέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀφειλέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀφειλέτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3781 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.
- debtor idem, page 199.