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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

  • οὐ μόνον οὕτωσ ἔχει κατὰ τὸ δίκαιον ὃ προφέρειν εἰώθασιν οἱ τὰσ πολιτείασ καθιστάντεσ, οἵ τε τὰσ ἀριστοκρατικὰσ καὶ οἱ τὰσ ὀλιγαρχικὰσ καὶ πάλιν οἱ τὰσ δημοκρατικάσ πάντεσ γὰρ καθ’ ὑπεροχὴν ἀξιοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ ὑπεροχὴν οὐ τὴν αὐτήν, ἀλλὰ <καὶ> κατὰ τὸ πρότερον λεχθέν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 307:1)

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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