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δοτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

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 ἡρ́μοττεν, 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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