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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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἀξιοῦμεν αὐτοσχεδίουσ οὐδὲ ῥᾳθύμουσ εἶναι τὰσ περί τε πόλεων ἐνδόξων καὶ ἀνδρῶν ἐν δυναστείᾳ γεγονότων ἀναγραφομένασ ἱστορίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 1 7:1)

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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