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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

  • ἔχρη οὖν καὶ ἐθέσπιζε, πολλῇ τῇ συνέσει ἐνταῦθα χρώμενοσ καὶ τὸ εἰκαστικὸν τῇ ἐπινοίᾳ προσάπτων, τοῖσ μὲν λοξὰ καὶ ἀμφίβολα πρὸσ τὰσ ἐρωτήσεισ ἀποκρινόμενοσ, τοῖσ δὲ καὶ πάνυ ἀσαφῆ· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 22:1)
  • τῆσ τοίνυν εἰδωλουργικῆσ ἀναμνησθῶμεν ὅτι τὸ μὲν εἰκαστικόν, τὸ δὲ φανταστικὸν ἔμελλεν εἶναι γένοσ, εἰ τὸ ψεῦδοσ ὄντωσ ὂν ψεῦδοσ καὶ τῶν ὄντων ἕν τι φανείη πεφυκόσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 303:5)

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

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