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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

  • Ἤκουσε δὲ καὶ Ἀννικέριδοσ ὁ Θεόδωροσ καὶ Διονυσίου τοῦ διαλεκτικοῦ, καθά φησιν Ἀντισθένησ ἐν Φιλοσόφων διαδοχαῖσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. h'. ARISTIPPOS 34:1)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ Πανθοίδου διήκουσε τοῦ διαλεκτικοῦ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. d'. LUKWN 4:3)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ Καρνεάδησ οὗτοσ δὲ τῶν ἐξ Ἀκαδημίασ ἄριστοσ φιλοσόφων ὁμολογεῖται καὶ ὁ Κρόνοσ δὲ Ἀπολλώνιοσ ἐκεῖθέν ἐστιν, ὁ τοῦ διαλεκτικοῦ Διοδώρου διδάσκαλοσ τοῦ καὶ αὐτοῦ Κρόνου προσαγορευθέντοσ, μετενεγκάντων τινῶν τὸ τοῦ διδασκάλου ἐπίθετον ἐπὶ τὸν μαθητήν. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 43:3)

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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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