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ἐπιδεικτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιδεικτικός ἐπιδεικτική ἐπιδεικτικόν

Structure: ἐπιδεικτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fit for displaying, display
  2. for display, declamations

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

  • οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ ῥητορικῆσ ἀφέστηκεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ταύτησ μετέχει, καθ’ ὅσον ἤθουσ τε καὶ πάθουσ ἐπιδεικτική ἐστιν, ὧν καὶ οἱ ῥήτορεσ γλίχονται. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 35:5)
  • ἡ μὲν οὖν ἐπιδεικτικὴ λέξισ γραφικωτάτη· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 12 5:10)
  • τῆσ δὴ ψυχεμπορικῆσ ταύτησ ἆρ’ οὐ τὸ μὲν ἐπιδεικτικὴ δικαιότατα λέγοιτ’ ἄν, τὸ δὲ γελοίῳ μὲν οὐχ ἧττον τοῦ πρόσθεν, ὅμωσ δὲ μαθημάτων οὖσαν πρᾶσιν αὐτὴν ἀδελφῷ τινι τῆσ πράξεωσ ὀνόματι προσειπεῖν ἀνάγκη; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 50:3)

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

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