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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

  • ἐν τούτῳ τῷ γυμνασίῳ καὶ βουλευτήριόν ἐστιν Ἠλείοισ, καὶ ἐπιδείξεισ ἐνταῦθα λόγων τε αὐτοσχεδίων καὶ συγγραμμάτων ποιοῦνται παντοίων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 23 10:1)
  • καὶ τό γε σφόδρα πρῶτον ἀπάρξασθαί με ἐκέλευεν ἑαυτῷ προσελθόντα εἰσ τὴν στοὰν τοῦ ἱεροῦ τὴν πρὸσ τῷ θεάτρῳ τῶν αὐτοσχεδίων δὴ τούτων λόγων καὶ ἀγωνιστικῶν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 4:4)

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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