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ἐπιμελητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιμελητικός ἐπιμελητική ἐπιμελητικόν

Structure: ἐπιμελητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pimelhth/s

Sense

  1. able to take charge, managing

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

  • τὸν δὲ ἐπιμελητικοὺσ βουλόμενον ποιήσασθαί τινασ καὶ ἐφορατικὸν δεῖ εἶναι τῶν ἔργων καὶ ἐξεταστικὸν καὶ χάριν θέλοντα τῶν καλῶσ τελουμένων ἀποδιδόναι τῷ αἰτίῳ, καὶ δίκην μὴ ὀκνοῦντα τὴν ἀξίαν ἐπιθεῖναι τῷ ἀμελοῦντι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 12 20:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ἤ τινα ἀγελαιοκομικὴν ἢ θεραπευτικὴν ἢ καί τινα ἐπιμελητικὴν αὐτὴν ὀνομάσασιν ὡσ κατὰ πάντων ἐξῆν περικαλύπτειν καὶ τὸν πολιτικὸν ἅμα τοῖσ ἄλλοισ, ἐπειδὴ δεῖν τοῦτ’ ἐσήμαινεν ὁ λόγοσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 113:3)
  • αὖθισ δέ γε τὴν ἀπονεμηθεῖσαν ἐπιμελητικὴν δίχα τέμνειν ἀναγκαῖον ἦν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 118:5)
  • νῦν δέ γε πάλιν ἐπανορθούμενοι, καθάπερ εἶπον, τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην ἐπιμελητικὴν δίχα διαιρώμεθα, τῷ βιαίῳ τε καὶ ἑκουσίῳ; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 119:3)

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

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