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βιώσιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βιώσιμος βιώσιμη βιώσιμον

Structure: βιωσιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: bio/w

Sense

  1. to be lived, worth living, meet, live

Examples

  • καὶ μὴν καὶ τὰ ὅλα γε τοῦ βίου μέτρα συνέχων ἀνθρώποισ καὶ ταμίασ ὢν τοῦ βιωσίμου, κατὰ τοῦτ’ ἂν δικαίωσ ἅπαντα περιειληφέναι νομίζοιτο καὶ πάντα οἱο͂ν κυβερνᾶν ἡμῶν τὸν βίον. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be lived

Related

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

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