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αἱρέσιμος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: hairesimos

Principal Part: αἱρέσιμος αἱρέσιμη αἱρέσιμον

Structure: αἱρεσιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: αἱρέω

Sense

  1. that can be taken

Examples

  • οὕτω δὴ ὁ Κῦρος αὐτὸς μὲν τῷ ὄντι βουλόμενος ἰδεῖν εἴ που εἰή αἱρέσιμον τὸ τεῖχος, εἰ ψευδὴς φαίνοιτο ὁ Γωβρύας, περιήλαυνε πάντοθεν, ἑώρα τε ἰσχυρότερα πάντα ἢ προσελθεῖν: (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. that can be taken

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

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