ἱκέτης

Ancient Greek[edit]

ῐ̔κνέομαι (hiknéomai, “to come”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er”, masculine agent-noun suffix): literally, “comer”.

ῐ̔κέτης • (hikétēs) m (genitive ῐ̔κέτου); first declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic)

One who comes looking for aid or protection, suppliant
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 5.19
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 634
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.136
One who comes looking for purification after having murdered someone: common in the Iliad and Odyssey
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.158
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.270

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῐ̔κέτης ho hikétēs	τὼ ῐ̔κέτᾱ tṑ hikétā	οἱ ῐ̔κέται hoi hikétai
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̔κέτου toû hikétou	τοῖν ῐ̔κέταιν toîn hikétain	τῶν ῐ̔κετῶν tôn hiketôn
Dative	τῷ ῐ̔κέτῃ tôi hikétēi	τοῖν ῐ̔κέταιν toîn hikétain	τοῖς ῐ̔κέταις toîs hikétais
Accusative	τὸν ῐ̔κέτην tòn hikétēn	τὼ ῐ̔κέτᾱ tṑ hikétā	τοὺς ῐ̔κέτᾱς toùs hikétās
Vocative	ῐ̔κέτᾰ hikéta	ῐ̔κέτᾱ hikétā	ῐ̔κέται hikétai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

ἱκέτης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ἱκέτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press