ΔΗΜΟΤΑΣ, δημοτας
DĒMOTAS, dēmotas
Sounds Like: day-MO-tas
Translations: citizen, a citizen, townsman, a townsman, commoner, a commoner
From the root: ΔΗΜΟΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a citizen or a member of the common people, often in contrast to rulers or elites. It describes someone who belongs to a particular city or district and holds the rights and responsibilities associated with that status. It can be used to refer to the general populace.
Inflection: Masculine, Plural, Accusative
Strong’s number: G1218 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 6:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΗΜΟΤΗΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΔΗΜΟΤ — citizen, a citizen, commoner, a commoner, townsman, a townsman
- ΔΗΜΟΤΑΙ — fellow citizens, countrymen, townsmen, people of the same district
- ΔΗΜΟΤΑΙΣ — (to) fellow citizens, (to) countrymen, (to) townsmen, (to) common people
- ΔΗΜΟΤΗΣ — citizen, a citizen, commoner, a commoner
- ΔΗΜΟΤΙΝ — a common person, a commoner, a citizen, a native
- ΔΗΜΟΤΙΣ — a citizen, a native, a common person, a commoner
- ΔΗΜΟΤΩΝ — of the citizens, of the common people, of the townsmen
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