νομοθέτῃ (nomothete)

νομοθέτῃ is an Ancient Greek form of νομοθέτης, meaning “lawgiver”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of νομοθετέω, “make laws, legislate”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive subjunctive.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit 24: … ός ἐστιν, ἀλλʼ εἰς ὃ μάλιστα καὶ πρῶτον ὁ Λυκοῦργος ἐντείνας ἑαυτὸν εἴθισε· τοὺς νέους παντὶ πρεσβύτῃ καθάπερ νομοθέτῃ πειθομένους διατελεῖν· ἐπεὶ πρὸς τί βλέψας ὁ Λύσανδρος· εἶπεν, ὡς ἐν Λακεδαίμονι κάλλιστα γηρῶσιν; ἆρʼ ὅτι γʼ …

Plato, Laws 9.876: … ἐπιτρεπτέον αὐτοῖς τάττειν τὰς ζημίας, τὰ δὲ πλεῖστα αὐτὸν νομοθετεῖν διαρρήδην, ἄν τις ἄρα τοιαύτῃ πολιτείᾳ νομοθετῇ ποτε· ἐν ᾗ δὲ ἂν πόλει δικαστήρια εἰς δύναμιν ὀρθῶς καθεστῶτα ᾖ, τραφέντων τε εὖ τῶν μελλόντων δικάζειν δοκιμ …

All forms of νομοθέτης (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.