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διαλεκτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαλεκτικός διαλεκτική διαλεκτικόν

Structure: διαλεκτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: diale/gomai

Sense

  1. skilled in logical argument, the art of discussion, dialectic, logically

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

  • "καὶ εἰ διαλεκτικοὶ συνελθόντεσ εἰσ πότον περὶ συλλογισμῶν διαλέγοιντο, ἀλλοτρίωσ ἂν αὐτοὺσ ὑπολάβοι τισ ποιεῖν τοῦ παρόντοσ καιροῦ, ὅτε καὶ ὁ καλὸσ κἀγαθὸσ ἀνὴρ μεθυσθείη ἄν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 86 1:4)
  • τοῦτο δ’ ἐξ ὀνόματοσ καὶ ῥήματοσ συνέστηκεν, ὧν τὸ μὲν πτῶσιν οἱ διαλεκτικοὶ τὸ δὲ κατηγόρημα καλοῦσιν. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 10, section 1 4:2)
  • τὰ συμβεβηκότα καθ’ αὑτὰ ταῖσ οὐσίαισ, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ περὶ ταὐτοῦ καὶ ἑτέρου καὶ ὁμοίου καὶ ἀνομοίου καὶ ἐναντιότητοσ, καὶ περὶ προτέρου καὶ ὑστέρου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων τῶν τοιούτων περὶ ὅσων οἱ διαλεκτικοὶ πειρῶνται σκοπεῖν ἐκ τῶν ἐνδόξων μόνων ποιούμενοι τὴν σκέψιν, τίνοσ ἐστὶ θεωρῆσαι περὶ πάντων· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 3 13:1)
  • οἱ γὰρ διαλεκτικοὶ καὶ σοφισταὶ τὸ αὐτὸ μὲν ὑποδύονται σχῆμα τῷ φιλοσόφῳ· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 4 35:1)
  • καὶ ἤτοι τοῦτο λέγει τοὺσ ἡρ́ωασ, ἢ ὅτι σοφοὶ ἦσαν καὶ ῥήτορεσ καὶ δεινοὶ καὶ διαλεκτικοί, ἐρωτᾶν ἱκανοὶ ὄντεσ· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 92:4)

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

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