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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

  • ἀπολαυστικὸσ δέ ἐστι παρ’ αὐτῷ καὶ ὁ τῶν Φαιάκων βίοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 28 2:7)
  • "γίνεται δὲ καὶ οἶνοσ ἐξ αὐτοῦ βρεχομένου καὶ τριβομένου δι’ ὕδατοσ, κατὰ μὲν τὴν γεῦσιν ἡδὺσ καὶ ἀπολαυστικόσ, οἰνομέλιτι χρηστῷ παραπλήσιοσ, ᾧ χρῶνται χωρὶσ ὕδατοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 6257)
  • τούτων γὰρ ὁ μὲν φιλόσοφοσ βούλεται περὶ φρόνησιν εἶναι καὶ τὴν θεωρίαν τὴν περὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν, ὁ δὲ πολιτικὸσ περὶ τὰσ πράξεισ τὰσ καλάσ αὗται δ’ εἰσὶν αἱ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἀρετῆσ, ὁ δ’ ἀπολαυστικὸσ περὶ τὰσ ἡδονὰσ τὰσ σωματικάσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 36:1)
  • γίνεται δὲ καὶ οἶνοσ ἐξ αὐτοῦ βρεχομένου καὶ τριβομένου δι’ ὕδατοσ, κατὰ μὲν τὴν γεῦσιν ἡδὺσ καὶ ἀπολαυστικόσ, οἰνομέλιτι χρηστῷ παραπλήσιοσ, ᾧ χρῶνται χωρὶσ ὕδατοσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 2 7:1)

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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