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δοτικός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: dotikos

Principal Part: δοτικός δοτική δοτικόν

Structure: δοτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. inclined to give, giving freely
  2. (elliptically for δοτική πτῶσις ‎(ptôsis)) the dative case

Examples

  • οὐ γὰρ ἐπὶ τῆς δοτικῆς πτώσεως ἐσχηματίσθαι τὴν λέξιν ἡρ´μοττεν, ἀλλ ἐπὶ τῆς αἰτιατικῆς: (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 11 2:2)
  • ἐπὶ μὲν γὰρ τῆς γενικῆς πτώσεως ἐξενήνοχεν τό τε μετοχικὸν ὄνομα τὸ μενόντων καὶ τὸ ἀντονομαστικὸν τὸ ἡμῶν, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς δοτικῆς τὸ ὑποχωρήσασιν: (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 12 1:1)
  • λέγουσι δὲ καὶ τὴν δοτικὴν ταωνι, ὡς ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ Ἀριστοφάνης, ἀμήχανον δὲ παρὰ Ἀττικοῖς καὶ Ιὤσιν ἐν τοῖς ὑπὲρ μίαν συλλαβὴν ὀνόμασι τὴν τελευτῶσαν ἀπὸ φωνήεντος ἀρχομένην δασύνεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 578)
  • ἡ δὲ δοτικὴ ταρίχει ὡς ξίφει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 89 3:8)
  • , ἐν Σφηξὶ δ ἡ δοτική: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 54 1:10)

Synonyms

  1. inclined to give

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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