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ἀξιάκουστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀξιάκουστος ἀξιάκουστη ἀξιάκουστον

Structure: ἀξιακουστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. worth hearing

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ὅταν μὲν ποιῶσιν ὅ τι ἂν τύχῃ ἕκαστοσ, ταραχή τισ φαίνεται καὶ θεᾶσθαι ἀτερπέσ, ὅταν δὲ τεταγμένωσ ποιῶσι καὶ φθέγγωνται, ἅμα οἱ αὐτοὶ οὗτοι καὶ ἀξιοθέατοι δοκοῦσιν εἶναι καὶ ἀξιάκουστοι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 4:3)
  • καὶ μὴν καὶ τὸ ἁβρότατόν γε κτῆμα, τὴν σχολὴν ἀεὶ ὁρᾶτέ μοι παροῦσαν, ὥστε καὶ θεᾶσθαι τὰ ἀξιοθέατα καὶ ἀκούειν τὰ ἀξιάκουστα καὶ ὃ πλείστου ἐγὼ τιμῶμαι, Σωκράτει σχολάζων συνδιημερεύειν. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 4 45:1)
  • καὶ μὴν χειροτέχναι τε καὶ σοφισταὶ καὶ φιλόσοφοι, οἱ δὲ ποιηταί, οἱ δὲ τὰ τούτων μεταχειριζόμενοι, οἱ δὲ ἀξιοθεάτων ἢ ἀξιακούστων ἱερῶν ἢ ὁσίων ἐπιθυμοῦντεσ; (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. worth hearing

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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