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δημοτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δημοτικός

Structure: δημοτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: dh=mos

Sense

  1. of or for the people, in common use, common
  2. of the populace, one of them
  3. on the popular or democratic side, affably, kindly

Examples

  • τὰσ δὲ τῆσ ἀρίστησ πολιτείασ, ὀλιγαρχικὰσ μὲν τὰσ συντονωτέρασ καὶ δεσποτικωτέρασ, τὰσ δ’ ἀνειμένασ καὶ μαλακὰσ δημοτικάσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 39:1)
  • οἱ δὲ δημοτικὰσ ἔχοντεσ τὰσ προαιρέσεισ τῶν τρόπων καὶ τὸν πλοῦτον οὐ πέρα τοῦ δέοντοσ ἐκτετιμηκότεσ τῆσ τ’ εἰρήνησ οὐδὲν ἀναγκαιότερον ὑπολαμβάνοντεσ ἤχθοντο τοῖσ λεγομένοισ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν γνώμην οὐ προσίεντο· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 25 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for the people

Related

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

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