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βιωτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βιωτικός

Structure: βιωτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: bio/w

Sense

  1. of or pertaining to life

Examples

  • διὸ δεῖ καὶ τὴν οἰκοδέσποιναν ὅτι πᾶν τὸ περιττὸν καὶ ἑταιρικὸν καὶ πανηγυρικόν, εὖ ποιοῦσα, φεύγει καὶ παραιτεῖται, μᾶλλον φιλοτεχνεῖν ἐν ταῖσ ἠθικαῖσ καὶ βιωτικαῖσ χάρισι πρὸσ τὸν ἄνδρα, τῷ καλῷ μεθ’ ἡδονῆσ συνεθίζουσαν αὐτόν; (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 29 2:1)
  • Προσέχετε δὲ ἑαυτοῖσ μή ποτε βαρηθῶσιν αἱ καρδίαι ὑμῶν ἐν κρεπάλῃ καὶ μέθῃ καὶ μερίμναισ βιωτικαῖσ, καὶ ἐπιστῇ ἐφ’ ὑμᾶσ ἐφνίδιοσ ἡ ἡμέρα ἐκείνη ὡσ παγίσ· (, chapter 14 337:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or pertaining to life

Related

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

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