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ἀριθμητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀριθμητικός

Structure: ἀριθμητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from a)riqme/w

Sense

  1. of or for reckoning, arithmetical, arithmetic

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

  • τὴν μὲν τοίνυν ψυχὴν μουσικῇ τὸ πρῶτον καὶ ἀριθμητικῇ ἀναρριπίζομεν, καὶ γράμματα γράψασθαι καὶ τορῶσ αὐτὰ ἐπιλέξασθαι διδάσκομεν προϊοῦσιν δὲ ἤδη σοφῶν ἀνδρῶν γνώμασ καὶ ἔργα παλαιὰ καὶ λόγουσ ὠφελίμουσ ἐν μέτροισ κατακοσμήσαντεσ, ὡσ μᾶλλον μνημονεύοιεν, ῥαψῳδοῦμεν αὐτοῖσ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 21:1)
  • ἐπεὶ τί δὴ ποτε ἀριθμητικὴ μὲν μία ἐστὶ καὶ ἡ αὐτὴ ^ καὶ δὶσ δύο παρά τε ^ ἡμῖν καὶ παρὰ Πέρσαισ τέσσαρά ἐστιν καὶ συμφωνεῖ ταῦτα καὶ παρὰ Ἕλλησι καὶ βαρβάροισ, φιλοσοφίασ δὲ πολλὰσ καὶ διαφόρουσ ὁρῶμεν καὶ οὔτε τὰσ ἀρχὰσ οὔτε τά τέλη σύμφωνα πασῶν; (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 27:8)
  • συμβέβηκεν οὖν ἐν μὲν τῇ ἀριθμητικῇ ταὐτῷ μέρει τῶν ἄκρων τὸ μέσον ὑπερέχεσθαι καὶ ὑπερέχειν, ἐν δὲ τῇ ὑπεναντίᾳ ταὐτῷ μέρει τῶν ἄκρων τοῦ μὲν ἀποδεῖν τὸ δ’ ὑπερβάλλειν ἐκεῖ μὲν γὰρ τὰ τρία τοῦ μέσου τρίτον ἐστὶ μέροσ, ἐνταῦθα δὲ τὰ δ’ καὶ τὰ β’ τῶν ἄκρων ἑκάτερον ἑκατέρου· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 15 5:1)
  • τρεῖσ εἰσι μεσότητεσ αἱ πρῶται, ἀφ’ ὧν λαμβάνεται πᾶσα μεσότησ, ἀριθμητική, ἁρμονική, γεωμετρουμένη. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 22 3:2)
  • τῶν γὰρ ἄλλων ἑκάστη περὶ τὸ αὑτῇ ὑποκείμενόν ἐστιν διδασκαλικὴ καὶ πειστική, οἱο͂ν ἰατρικὴ περὶ ὑγιεινῶν καὶ νοσερῶν, καὶ γεωμετρία περὶ τὰ συμβεβηκότα πάθη τοῖσ μεγέθεσι, καὶ ἀριθμητικὴ περὶ ἀριθμῶν, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ αἱ λοιπαὶ τῶν τεχνῶν καὶ ἐπιστημῶν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 2 1:3)

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

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