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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

  • τρίτον δ’ ἐκ δυοῖν ταγμάτοιν, τὰ μὲν ἐκ τοῦ ὀλιγαρχικοῦ νόμου τὰ δ’ ἐκ τοῦ δημοκρατικοῦ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 138:1)
  • συμβαίνει δ’ ἐκ τοῦ δικαίου τοῦ ὁμολογουμένου εἶναι δημοκρατικοῦ τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ ἴσον ἔχειν ἅπαντασ κατ’ ἀριθμόν ἡ μάλιστ’ εἶναι δοκοῦσα δημοκρατία καὶ δῆμοσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 6 30:1)
  • ὅτι δέ ἐστι δημοκρατικοῦ πατρόσ, διὰ τὴν αὐτὴν αἰτίαν ὑπὸ μὲν τῆσ βουλῆσ κατεκλήθη τε καὶ θαλασσοκράτωρ ἐγένετο, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν τριῶν προεγράφη. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 12 8:4)
  • ἡ δὲ πληθὺσ ἀνῴμωζον, οἱ μὲν ἑαυτῶν χάριν, οἱ δὲ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ, γνώμῃ μὲν ὁμοῦ σφισιν ἀρίστου καὶ δημοκρατικοῦ φανέντοσ, ὑπὸ δ’ ἐσχάτησ ἀνάγκησ ἡττημένου. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 5 2:2)
  • αὐτὸσ δὴ λοιπόσ, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, ὁ τυραννικὸσ ἀνὴρ σκέψασθαι, πῶσ τε μεθίσταται ἐκ δημοκρατικοῦ, γενόμενόσ τε ποῖόσ τίσ ἐστιν καὶ τίνα τρόπον ζῇ, ἄθλιον ἢ μακάριον. (Plato, Republic, book 9 3:1)

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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