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δημοκρατικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δημοκρατικός

Structure: δημοκρατικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for a democracy
  2. favouring democracy

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

  • ἔπειτ’ οὐδ’ ἔχουσα φαίνεται μοναρχικὸν οὐδέν, ἀλλ’ ὀλιγαρχικὰ καὶ δημοκρατικά· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 125:1)
  • ἐγχειροῦσι λέγειν ὡσ δημοκρατίασ οὔσησ διὰ τὸ δημοκρατικὰ πολλὰ τὴν τάξιν ἔχειν, οἱο͂ν πρῶτον τὸ περὶ τὴν τροφὴν τῶν παίδων ὁμοίωσ γὰρ οἱ τῶν πλουσίων τρέφονται τοῖσ τῶν πενήτων, καὶ παιδεύονται τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον ὃν ἂν δύναιντο καὶ τῶν πενήτων οἱ παῖδεσ, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἐχομένησ ἡλικίασ, καὶ ὅταν ἄνδρεσ γένωνται, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον οὐθὲν γὰρ διάδηλοσ ὁ πλούσιοσ καὶ ὁ πένησ οὕτω τὰ περὶ τὴν τροφὴν ταὐτὰ πᾶσιν ἐν τοῖσ συσσιτίοισ, καὶ τὴν ἐσθῆτα οἱ πλούσιοι τοιαύτην οἱάν ἄν τισ παρασκευάσαι δύναιτο καὶ τῶν πενήτων ὁστισοῦν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 142:1)

Synonyms

  1. favouring democracy

Related

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

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