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διαγνωστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαγνωστικός διαγνωστική διαγνωστικόν

Structure: διαγνωστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: diagignw/skw

Sense

  1. able to distinguish

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

  • καίτοι τῆσ μὲν ψυχῆσ προεῖπον τὰ πλεῖστα μνημονικόν τε ’γάρ εἶναι ^ καὶ εὐφυᾶ καὶ συνετὸν καὶ ὀξὺν ἐπινοῆσαι καὶ καιροῦ μάλιστα ἐστοχάσθαι φημὶ δεῖν αὐτόν, ἔτι δὲ κριτικόν τε ποιημάτων καὶ ᾀσμάτων καὶ μελῶν τῶν ἀρίστων διαγνωστικὸν καὶ τῶν κακῶσ πεποιημένων ἐλεγκτικόν . (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 74:2)

Synonyms

  1. able to distinguish

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

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