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ἀπολαυστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπολαυστικός

Structure: ἀπολαυστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from a)polau/w

Sense

  1. devoted to enjoyment, producing enjoyment, of pleasure

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

  • συμβαίνει δὲ τοῦτο, διότι ἡ φύσισ εὐθὺσ οὐ πρὸσ ἅπαντα ὁμοίωσ ἀφέστηκε τοῦ μέσου, ἀλλ’ ἧττον μὲν φιλόπονοι ἐσμέν, μᾶλλον δ’ ἀπολαυστικοί. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 88:2)

Synonyms

  1. devoted to enjoyment

Related

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

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