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αὐτοσχέδιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτοσχέδιος αὐτοσχέδιη αὐτοσχέδιον

Structure: αὐτοσχεδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hand to hand, in close fight, in the fray
  2. off-hand

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

  • ἡμῶν ἣκιστα περὶ τὰσ ἰσηγορίασ αὐτοσχέδιοσ ὢν καὶ κεχρημένοσ ἀεὶ κρατιστεύουσιν ἵπποισ ἔλεγε τοὺσ ὑπὸ λύκων ἐπιχειρηθέντασ ἐν πώλοισ, ἄνπερ ἐκφύγωσιν, ἀγαθοὺσ μὲν ἀποβαίνειν καὶ ποδώκεισ, καλεῖσθαι δὲ λυκοσπάδασ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 1:1)
  • ἥ τε γὰρ φωνὴ μείζων καὶ δῆλον ὅτι ἐμμελεστέρα ἥ τε λέξισ οὐκ αὐτοσχέδιοσ, ὥσπερ ἡ τῶν ῥητόρων ἐξ ὑπογύου τὰ πολλὰ πειρωμένων λέγειν, ἀλλὰ ποιητῶν ἐπιμελῶσ καὶ κατὰ σχολὴν πεποιηκότων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 8:4)

Synonyms

  1. hand to hand

  2. off-hand

Related

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

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