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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

  • παγκρατίοισ τοῦτο ποιοῦσιν ἀλλὰ βληχροῖσ περιπάτοισ καὶ χορείαισ ἐμμελέσιν, οὕτω καὶ ἡμεῖσ οἰησόμεθα δεῖν τὰσ ψυχὰσ διαφέρειν μετὰ τὸ δεῖπνον μήτε πράγμασι μήτε φροντίσι μήτε σοφιστικοῖσ ἀγῶσι πρὸσ ἅμιλλαν ἐπιδεικτικὴν ἢ νικητικὴν περαινομένοισ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 20 14:1)
  • οὐκ εὐπρεποῦσ τῆσ ἁμαρτίασ τὴν νουθέτησιν καὶ ἀνακάλυψιν ἀπόρρητον εἶναι καὶ μὴ πανηγυρικὴν μηδ’ ἐπιδεικτικὴν μηδὲ μάρτυρασ καὶ θεατὰσ συνάγουσαν. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 32 3:1)

Related

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

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