Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

διανεμητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διανεμητικός διανεμητική διανεμητικόν

Structure: διανεμητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: diane/mw

Sense

  1. distributive

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

  • δικαιοσύνη δ’ ἐστὶν ἀρετὴ ψυχῆσ διανεμητικὴ τοῦ κατ’ ἀξίαν. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 9:4)
  • δικαιοσύνησ δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ διανεμητικὸν εἶναι τοῦ κατ’ ἀξίαν, καὶ σώζειν τὰ πάτρια ἔθη καὶ τὰ νόμιμα, καὶ τὸ σώζειν τοὺσ γεγραμμένουσ νόμουσ, καὶ τὸ ἀληθεύειν ἐν τῷ διαφέροντι, καὶ τὸ διαφυλάττειν τὰσ ὁμολογίασ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 22:1)
  • "τὸ δὲ τῶν κυκλικῶν ὅλωσ παρῆκε, καίτοι μνησθεὶσ τοῦ σφαιροειδοῦσ, ἐν οἷσ φησι τῶν κατηριθμημένων σχημάτων ἕκαστον σώματοσ περιφεροῦσ εἰσ ἴσα διανεμητικὸν εἶναι; (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 5, section 1 1:3)
  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ διανεμητικὸν δίκαιον τῶν κοινῶν ἀεὶ κατὰ τὴν ἀναλογίαν ἐστὶ τὴν εἰρημένην· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 47:3)
  • καὶ ἡ μὲν δικαιοσύνη ἐστὶ καθ’ ἣν ὁ δίκαιοσ λέγεται πρακτικὸσ κατὰ προαίρεσιν τοῦ δικαίου, καὶ διανεμητικὸσ καὶ αὑτῷ πρὸσ ἄλλον καὶ ἑτέρῳ πρὸσ ἕτερον οὐχ οὕτωσ ὥστε τοῦ μὲν αἱρετοῦ πλέον αὑτῷ ἔλαττον δὲ τῷ πλησίον, τοῦ βλαβεροῦ δ’ ἀνάπαλιν, ἀλλὰ τοῦ ἴσου τοῦ κατ’ ἀναλογίαν, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ ἄλλῳ πρὸσ ἄλλον. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 82:1)

Synonyms

  1. distributive

Related

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

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