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ἐπαινετικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπαινετικός ἐπαινετική ἐπαινετικόν

Structure: ἐπαινετικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. given to prasing, laudatory

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

  • ἐκεῖνο δὲ γέ φημι, τοιαύτασ ἡμῖν τὰσ ἀφορμὰσ τῶν ἐπαινετικῶν τούτων λόγων εἶναι ὡσ χρὴ τὸν ἐπαινοῦντα καὶ εἰκόσι καὶ ὁμοιώσεσι προσχρῆσθαι, καὶ σχεδὸν ἐν τούτῳ τὸ μέγιστόν ἐστιν εὖ εἰκάσαι· (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 19:1)
  • τῶν τοίνυν ἐπαινετικῶν τὸ μέν τι ἔπαινοσ καλεῖται, τὸ δὲ ὕμνοσ, τὸ δὲ ἐγκώμιον· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 11:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ταῦτα ἐπαινετικά ἐστι, καὶ πάλιν ὁ μὲν ἀγαθόσ, ὁ δὲ ἀνδρεῖοσ, ὁ δὲ δίκαιοσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 11:4)
  • οὐδ’ αὖ ἐπαινετικόσ ἐστιν· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 91:3)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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