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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

  • νὴ τὸν Ἀπόλλω καὶ δημοτική γ’ ἡ γνώμη καὶ καταχήνη τῶν σεμνοτέρων ἔσται πολλὴ καὶ τῶν σφραγῖδασ ἐχόντων, ὅταν ἐμβάδ’ ἔχων εἴπῃ πρότεροσ, παραχώρει κᾆτ’ ἐπιτήρει, ὅταν ἤδη ’γὼ διαπραξάμενοσ παραδῶ σοι δευτεριάζειν. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Agon, epirrheme 1:31)
  • ἡ γὰρ ἰσοτιμία πάνυ δημοτικὴ καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα οὐδὲν ἔχει τὸ διάφορον ἐν φωτὶ εἶναι ἢ καὶ ἐν σκότῳ· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 5:2)
  • ἐν δὲ τοῖσ δείπνοισ ἡ μὲν κλῆσισ ἦν ὡσ τὰ πολλὰ δημοτικὴ καὶ λαώδησ, ἡ δ’ εὐτέλεια τὴν καθαριότητα καὶ τὴν φιλοφροσύνην ἡδίονα τοῦ πολυτελοῦσ εἶχε. (Plutarch, chapter 3 1:3)
  • νῦν γὰρ ἅνδρεσ εἰλημμένοι εἰσὶν ἐν δημοτικῇ ἀγωνίᾳ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 18:3)
  • Γίνεται δ’ ἐν ταῖσ συμφοραῖσ αὐτῷ καὶ δημοτική τισ ἐπανάστασισ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 909:1)

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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