Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ἀξιοθέατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀξιοθέατος ἀξιοθέατη ἀξιοθέατον

Structure: ἀξιοθεατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. well worth seeing

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

  • τοσαῦτα γὰρ λέγεται καθίεσθαι καὶ ἀναφαίνεσθαι πανταχόθεν ἅμα, καὶ τοιαύταισ πρὸσ ἄλληλα κλίσεσι καὶ θέσεσι διακεκοσμημένα καὶ συντεταγμένα πλαισίων καὶ περιφερῶν τρόπῳ, ὥστε τῶν ἐν ὀλίγοισ ἀξιοθεάτων καὶ καλῶν ἐκείνην γενέσθαι τὴν ὄψιν. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 26 4:3)
  • 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. well worth seeing

Related

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

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