one who places, giver
one who places, ὀνομάτων θ. name-giver, Pl. Cra. 389d.
II mortgagor
mortgagor, χωρίων Is. 10.24.
III adoptive father of a child
adoptive father of a child, Did. ap. Harp.
The corpus record
θέτης
thetes · ὁ
one who places
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Where it lives
- Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θέτης · thetēs Plato, Cratylus 389 (DIORISIS sentence 195)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.