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εἰκαστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰκαστικός εἰκαστική εἰκαστικόν

Structure: εἰκαστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. able to represent or conjecture, the faculty of conjecturing

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

  • μίαν μὲν τὴν εἰκαστικὴν ὁρῶν ἐν αὐτῇ τέχνην. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 117:3)
  • καὶ τῆσ γε μιμητικῆσ τὸ ἐπὶ τούτῳ μέροσ κλητέον ὅπερ εἴπομεν ἐν τῷ πρόσθεν, εἰκαστικήν; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 121:1)
  • τούτω τοίνυν τὼ δύο ἔλεγον εἴδη τῆσ εἰδωλοποιικῆσ, εἰκαστικὴν καὶ φανταστικήν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 122:4)
  • διειλόμεθα τῆσ εἰδωλοποιικῆσ εἴδη δύο, τὴν μὲν εἰκαστικήν, τὴν δὲ φανταστικήν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 290:2)
  • οὐκοῦν μουσικήν γε πᾶσάν φαμεν εἰκαστικήν τε εἶναι καὶ μιμητικήν; (Plato, Laws, book 2 95:3)

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

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