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διατριπτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διατριπτέος διατριπτέον

Structure: διατριπτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: di_atri/bw의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must spend time

Examples

  • αἱ γὰρ ἀμφισβητήσεισ ἢ μὴ γεγονέναι ἢ μὴ βλαβερὸν εἶναι ἢ μὴ ἄδικον ἢ μὴ τηλικοῦτον, ὥστε περὶ τὸ ὁμολογούμενον οὐ διατριπτέον, ἐὰν μή τι εἰσ ἐκεῖνο συντείνῃ, οἱο͂ν εἰ πέπρακται, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἄδικον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 16 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. one must spend time

Similar forms

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

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