τολμητής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τόλμα (tólma) +‎ -τής (-tḗs).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tol.mɛː.tɛ̌ːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tol.me̝ˈte̝s/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tol.miˈtis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tol.miˈtis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tol.miˈtis/

Noun

τολμητής • (tolmētḗs) m (genitive τολμητοῦ); first declension

bold, adventurous person
- 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70:
  αὖθις δὲ οἱ μὲν καὶ παρὰ δύναμιν τολμηταὶ καὶ παρὰ γνώμην κινδυνευταὶ καὶ ἐν τοῖς δεινοῖς εὐέλπιδες
  aûthis dè hoi mèn kaì parà dúnamin tolmētaì kaì parà gnṓmēn kinduneutaì kaì en toîs deinoîs euélpides
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 2.72
- 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 20.9.1
- 50 CE – 100 CE, Second Epistle of Peter 2:10b:
  τολμηταί, αὐθάδεις, δόξας οὐ τρέμουσι βλασφημοῦντες
  tolmētaí, authádeis, dóxas ou trémousi blasphēmoûntes
  Translation by RSV
  Bold and wilful, they are not afraid to revile the glorious ones
- 350 CE – 500 CE, Adamantius, Treatise on Physiognomy 2.5
- Palatine Anthology 9.678

Declension

First declension of ὁ τολμητής; τοῦ τολμητοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τολμητής ho tolmētḗs	τὼ τολμητᾱ́ tṑ tolmētā́	οἱ τολμηταί hoi tolmētaí
Genitive	τοῦ τολμητοῦ toû tolmētoû	τοῖν τολμηταῖν toîn tolmētaîn	τῶν τολμητῶν tôn tolmētôn
Dative	τῷ τολμητῇ tōî tolmētēî	τοῖν τολμηταῖν toîn tolmētaîn	τοῖς τολμηταῖς toîs tolmētaîs
Accusative	τὸν τολμητήν tòn tolmētḗn	τὼ τολμητᾱ́ tṑ tolmētā́	τοὺς τολμητᾱ́ς toùs tolmētā́s
Vocative	τολμητᾰ́ tolmētắ	τολμητᾱ́ tolmētā́	τολμηταί tolmētaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

τολμητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
τολμητής, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
“τολμητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
G5113 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- adventurer idem, page 14.
- venturer idem, page 948.