εἰκός
Third declension Noun; Neuter
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
εἰκός
εἰκότος
Structure:
εἰκοτ
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Etym.: neut. partic. of ei)=ka or e)/oika,
Sense
- likely, probable, reasonable, (neuter substantive) likelihood, probability, (in Aristotle's Logic) a probable proposition
Declension
Third 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.
- ὥσ2τ’ οὐδὲν ἔξω τοῦ εἰκότοσ ἔμελλεν πείσεσθαι σπάσασ τινὰ καὶ τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ἅμα τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ, ὧν ἔχουσιν οἱ τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἐκείνων χαρακτῆρεσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 2 8:6)
- καὶ γὰρ τοῦ εἰκότοσ ἄριστοσ ὁ ἀνὴρ εἰκαστὴσ καὶ τοῦ παραδείγματοσ, πῇ τε ὅμοιον εἶναι πέφυκε καὶ πῇ διαφέρον, ἀκριβέστατοσ κριτὴσ τά τε σημεῖα διελεῖν τὰ παρεπόμενα τοῖσ πράγμασι καὶ εἰσ τεκμηρίων δόξαν ἀγαγεῖν δυνατώτατοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 193)
- ὑπεκρίνετο γοῦν μετὰ τοῦ εἰκότοσ τὰ δράματα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 39 1:1)
- τούτοισ τε δὴ τοῖσ λόγοισ χρώμενοσ δοκεῖ μοί τισ ἂν οὐδὲν ἔξω τοῦ εἰκότοσ ἀξιοῦν καὶ ἔτι ἐκεῖνα εἰπών, ὅτι μειράκιον μὲν ὄντα καὶ νεωστὶ τοῦ μαθήματοσ ἁπτόμενον αὐτὸν οὐκ ἄλογον ἦν πάντα περισκοπεῖν, ὅσα δυνατὰ ἦν εἰσ ἐπιτήδευσιν ἀνθρωπίνην πεσεῖν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2571)
- τοιούτων δὲ τῶν καθόλου λεγομένων, ὁ μὲν Εὔδωροσ οὐδετέρουσ ἀμοιρεῖν οἰέται τοῦ εἰκότοσ· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 3 3:2)
