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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

  • δημοκρατικὸν γὰρ αὔτ’ ἔδρων. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, Epirrheme 1:9)
  • βούλεται μὲν γὰρ δημοκρατικὸν εἶναι τὸ κατασκεύασμα τῶν συσσιτίων, γίνεται δ’ ἥκιστα δημοκρατικὸν οὕτω νενομοθετημένον. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 242:1)
  • ληπτέον δὲ πρῶτον τίνασ ὁρ́ουσ λέγουσι τῆσ ὀλιγαρχίασ καὶ δημοκρατίασ, καὶ τί τὸ δίκαιον τό τε ὀλιγαρχικὸν καὶ δημοκρατικόν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 122:1)
  • λέγω δ’ οἱο͂ν δοκεῖ δημοκρατικὸν μὲν εἶναι τὸ κληρωτὰσ εἶναι τὰσ ἀρχάσ, τὸ δ’ αἱρετὰσ ὀλιγαρχικόν, καὶ δημοκρατικὸν μὲν τὸ μὴ ἀπὸ τιμήματοσ, ὀλιγαρχικὸν δὲ τὸ ἀπὸ τιμήματοσ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 138:2)

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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