Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • τίσ δὲ τὸν λόγον ἀκούσασ οὐ συνῆκεν, ὅτι παίζοντόσ ἐστιν εὐμούσωσ ἢ γύμνασμα τοῦτο προβάλλοντοσ ἑτέροισ διαλεκτικόν; (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 22 2:2)
  • χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον Ἀβαντίδαν μὲν οἱ περὶ Δεινίαν καὶ Ἀριστοτέλη τὸν διαλεκτικόν, εἰωθότα τοῖσ λόγοισ αὐτῶν κατ’ ἀγορὰν σχολαζόντων ἑκάστοτε παρεῖναι καὶ συμφιλονεικεῖν, ἐμβαλόντεσ εἰσ· (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 3 3:1)
  • καὶ φυσικὸν μὲν ὅταν περὶ κόσμου ζητῶμεν καὶ τῶν ἐν κόσμῳ, ἠθικὸν δὲ τὸ κατησχολημένον περὶ τὸν ἀνθρώπινον βίον, λογικὸν δὲ τὸ περὶ τὸν λόγον, ὃ καὶ διαλεκτικὸν καλοῦσιν. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, chapter 0 4:1)
  • ἀλλὰ τοῦτο μὲν τὸ εἶδοσ ὀρθῶσ ἔμοιγε δοκεῖσ καλεῖν, διαλεκτικὸν καλῶν· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 263:3)
  • τὸν δὲ ἐρωτᾶν καὶ ἀποκρίνεσθαι ἐπιστάμενον ἄλλο τι σὺ καλεῖσ ἢ διαλεκτικόν; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 43:9)

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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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