δέκτης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From δέχομαι (dékhomai, “to receive”) + -της (-tēs), thus literally, “recipient”.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dék.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈdek.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈðek.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈðek.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈðek.tis/
Noun
δέκτης • (déktēs) m (genitive δέκτου); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ δέκτης ho déktēs |
τὼ δέκτᾱ tṑ déktā |
οἱ δέκται hoi déktai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ δέκτου toû déktou |
τοῖν δέκταιν toîn déktain |
τῶν δεκτῶν tôn dektôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ δέκτῃ tōî déktēi |
τοῖν δέκταιν toîn déktain |
τοῖς δέκταις toîs déktais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν δέκτην tòn déktēn |
τὼ δέκτᾱ tṑ déktā |
τοὺς δέκτᾱς toùs déktās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | δέκτᾰ déktă |
δέκτᾱ déktā |
δέκται déktai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀποδέκτης (apodéktēs)
- πανδέκτης (pandéktēs)
- English: pandect
Descendants
- Greek: δέκτης (déktis)
- →⇒ Translingual: Amphidecta
- →⇒ Translingual: Carpodectes
- →⇒ Translingual: Melidectes
- → English: melidectes
Further reading
- “δέκτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δέκτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δέκτης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- δέκτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- δέκτης, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “δέκτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δέκτης (déktēs, “receiver”), from δέχομαι (dékhomai, “to receive”).
Noun
δέκτης • (déktis) m (plural δέκτες)