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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

  • ἐπιδεικτικοῦ δὲ τὸ μὲν ἔπαινοσ τὸ δὲ ψόγοσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 3 3:4)
  • διήγησισ γάρ που τοῦ δικανικοῦ μόνου λόγου ἐστίν, ἐπιδεικτικοῦ δὲ καὶ δημηγορικοῦ πῶσ ἐνδέχεται εἶναι διήγησιν οἱάν λέγουσιν, ἢ τὰ πρὸσ τὸν ἀντίδικον, ἢ ἐπίλογον τῶν ἀποδεικτικῶν; (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 13 3:2)

Related

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

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