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ἀποδεικτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποδεικτέος ἀποδεικτέη ἀποδεικτέον

Structure: ἀποδεικτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from a)podei/knumi

Sense

  1. one must prove
  2. one must make

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

  • πλὴν εἰ μὴ σκαπανέα γε καὶ ὑδροφόρον αὐτὸν ἀποδεικτέον. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 7:12)
  • ἀποδεικτέον ὅτι, τούτου συμπληρουμένου δυσὶν ἐπογδόοισ, λείπεται διάστημα τηλικοῦτον, ἡλίκον ὡσ ἐν ἀριθμοῖσ τὰ σ’ καὶ ν’ καὶ σ’ ἔχει πρὸσ τὰ γ’ καὶ μ’ καὶ σ’. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 18 8:1)
  • ἡμῖν δὲ ἀποδεικτέον αὖ τοὐναντίον, ὡσ ἐπ’ εὐτυχίᾳ τῇ μεγίστῃ παρὰ θεῶν ἡ τοιαύτη μανία δίδοται· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 125:4)
  • ἡμῖν δὲ ἀποδεικτέον αὖ τοὐναντίον φησὶν, ὡσ ἐπ’ εὐτυχίᾳ τῇ μεγίστῃ παρὰ θεῶν ἡ τοιαύτη μανία δίδοται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 15:7)
  • εἰ δ’ ἄρα μηδὲν ἐκεῖνοσ προτιμᾷ, ἀλλ’ ἡμῖν γε ἀποδεικτέον ὡσ ἐπ’ εὐτυχίᾳ τῇ μεγίστῃ καὶ τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἡ τῶν λόγων δύναμισ παρὰ θεῶν ἧκεν εἰσ ἀνθρώπουσ, καὶ νῦν ἐν καλοῦ μοίρᾳ τῇ πρώτῃ καὶ εἰσ τὸν ἔπειτα χρόνον καὶ δίδονται καὶ δοθήσονται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 15:9)

Synonyms

  1. one must prove

  2. one must make

Related

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

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