1. μετανάστης · metanastēs — Beekes
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μετανάστης
metanastes
migrant, emigrant, fugitive
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2. μετανάστης · metanastēs — Chantraine
3. Μετανάστης · Metanastēs — Chantraine
4. μετανάστης · metanastēs — Frisk
5. μετανάστ-ης · metanast-ēs — LSJ
one who has left his home, wanderer, migrant, commonly as a term of reproach, ἀτίμητος μ. Il. 9.648; μοῦνοι οὐ μετανάσται Ἑλλήνων, of the Athenians, Hdt. 7.161; fugitive, POxy. 487.18 (ii A. D.), PTeb. 439 (ii A. D.); μ. γενόμενοι ὑπὸ ἐθνῶν Prisc. p.341 D. (cf. μετανίσταντο ibid.): c. gen., ἀρετῆς μ. from virtue, Ph. 1.415, cf. 477; πάτρης μ. Man. 2.420.
wandering, of the planets, opp. the fixed stars, Arat. 457:—hence fem. μετανάστις, ψυχὴ σώματος μ. a fugitive from . . , Ph. 2.462; also μετανάστρια, σκοπέλων μ. πέρδιξ AP 7.204 (Agath.).
In the wild
- μετανάστην · metanastēn Aristotle, Politics 1278a (DIORISIS sentence 1007)
- μετανάστην · metanastēn Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
- μετανάσται · metanastai Herodotus, Histories 7.161.3 (DIORISIS sentence 8003)
- μετανάστην · metanastēn Iliad 16.59
- μετανάστην · metanastēn Iliad 9.648
Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. μετανάστης (scan pp. 988-989; entry #4043).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. μετανάστης (scan p. 707; entry #5236).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. μετανάστης (scan pp. 1189-1190; entry #3846).
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