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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

  • φιλόνικοσ μὲν γὰρ ὁ διαλεκτικὸσ τὴν ἄλλην κατασκευὴν τῆσ λέξεωσ ἐπαινῶν τἀνδρὸσ μέμφεται τῆσ κενότητόσ τ’ αὐτῆσ καὶ τοῦ φορτικοῦ ἐοικέναι τέ φησιν αὐτὸν ζωγράφῳ ταῖσ αὐταῖσ ἐσθῆσι καὶ τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ σχήμασι πάσασ ἐπικοσμοῦντι τὰσ γραφάσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 132)
  • παιὰν δ’ ἐστὶν καὶ ὁ εἰσ Κρατερὸν τὸν Μακεδόνα γραφείσ, ὃν ἐτεκτήνατο Ἀλεξῖνοσ ὁ διαλεκτικόσ, φησὶν Ἕρμιπποσ ὁ Καλλιμάχειοσ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ περὶ Ἀριστοτέλουσ, ᾄδεται δὲ καὶ οὗτοσ ἐν Δελφοῖσ, λυρίζοντὸσ γέ τινοσ παιδόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 519)
  • τῇ δὲ ἑορτῇ τῶν Χοῶν ἔθοσ ἐστὶν Ἀθήνησι πέμπεσθαι δῶρά τε καὶ τοὺσ μισθοὺσ τοῖσ σοφισταῖσ, οἵπερ καὶ αὐτοὶ συνεκάλουν ἐπὶ ξένια τοὺσ γνωρίμουσ, ὥσ φησιν Εὐβουλίδησ ὁ διαλεκτικὸσ ἐν δράματι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 49 3:2)
  • πλὴν ἐνταῦθα μὲν ἔσται ὁ μὲν κατὰ τὴν ἐπιστήμην ὁ δὲ κατὰ τὴν προαίρεσιν ῥήτωρ, ἐκεῖ δὲ σοφιστὴσ μὲν κατὰ τὴν προαίρεσιν, διαλεκτικὸσ δὲ οὐ κατὰ τὴν προαίρεσιν ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὴν δύναμιν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 1 14:5)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ συνοπτικὸσ διαλεκτικόσ, ὁ δὲ μὴ οὔ. (Plato, Republic, book 7 459:2)

Related

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

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