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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

  • ἀριθμητικῶν καὶ ὁ τῶν μαθηματικῶν ἐγκωμίων τοῦ Ε λόγοσ, ὡσ ἐγὼ μέμνημαι, πέρασ ἔσχεν. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 16 3:1)
  • Ὀρόντησ, ὁ βασιλέωσ Ἀρταξέρξου γαμβρόσ, ἀτιμίᾳ περιπεσὼν διὰ κατηγορίαν καὶ καταγνωσθεὶσ ἔφη, καθάπερ οἱ τῶν ἀριθμητικῶν δάκτυλοι νῦν μὲν μυριάδασ νῦν δὲ μονάδασ τιθέναι δύνανται, τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ τοὺσ τῶν βασιλέων φίλουσ, νῦν μὲν τὸ πᾶν δύνασθαι νῦν δὲ τοὐλάχιστον. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, chapter 10, section 11)
  • ὡσ δὲ τῶν ζωγράφων γράψει κρεῖττον οὐκ ὢν ζωγράφοσ, ἢ τῶν ἰατρῶν ἄμεινον θεραπεύσει οὐκ ὢν ἰατρόσ, ἢ τῶν μουσικῶν μουσικώτερον ᾅσεται οὐκ ὤν ἔμπειροσ μουσικῆσ ἢ μετρίωσ ἔμπειροσ γεγονώσ, ἢ τῶν ἀριθμητικῶν περὶ τοὺσ ἀριθμοὺσ ἢ τῶν γεωμετρῶν ἐμπειρότεροσ φανεῖται περὶ γεωμετρίαν ἢ περὶ φυτείαν τῶν γεωργῶν ἢ περὶ κυβερνητικὴν τῶν κυβερνητῶν, ἢ σφάξει θᾶττον τῶν μαγείρων ἢ διελεῖ δέον διελεῖν τῶν αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἔργον πεποιημένων, οὐ χρὴ διανοεῖσθαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 15:2)
  • Ἀριθμητικῶν ἱστοριῶν περὶ αὐξήσεωσ α’. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. b'. QEOFRASTOS 15:4)

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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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