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

  • οὔκουν οὔτε Ῥητορικῶσ οὔτε διαλεκτικῶσ ἀντεῖπεν ὁ Ἐρασίστρατοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ τῆσ καταπόσεωσ λόγῳ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 1612)
  • οἱ δὲ νῦν τῶν ἀνθρώπων σοφοὶ ἓν μέν, ὅπωσ ἂν τύχωσι, καὶ πολλὰ θᾶττον καὶ βραδύτερον ποιοῦσι τοῦ δέοντοσ, μετὰ δὲ τὸ ἓν ἄπειρα εὐθύσ, τὰ δὲ μέσα αὐτοὺσ ἐκφεύγει ‐ οἷσ διακεχώρισται τό τε διαλεκτικῶσ πάλιν καὶ τὸ ἐριστικῶσ ἡμᾶσ ποιεῖσθαι πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ τοὺσ λόγουσ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 36:1)

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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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