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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

  • Ὅτι Φιλοποίμην τετταράκοντ’ ἔτη συνεχῶσ φιλοδοξήσασ ἐν δημοκρατικῷ καὶ πολυειδεῖ πολιτεύματι, πάντῃ πάντωσ διέφυγε τὸν τῶν πολλῶν φθόνον, τὸ πλεῖον οὐ πρὸσ χάριν, ἀλλὰ μετὰ παρρησίασ πολιτευόμενοσ· (Polybius, Histories, book 23, iii. res graeciae 8:1)

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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