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ἐπιθυμητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιθυμητικός ἐπιθυμητική ἐπιθυμητικόν

Structure: ἐπιθυμητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from e)piqume/w

Sense

  1. desiring, coveting, lusting after

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

  • οἱ μὲν οὖν νέοι τὰ ἤθη εἰσὶν ἐπιθυμητικοί, καὶ οἱοῖ ποιεῖν ὧν ἂν ἐπιθυμήσωσι. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 12 3:1)
  • καὶ οἱ θυμοὶ ὀξεῖσ μὲν ἀσθενεῖσ δέ εἰσιν, καὶ αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι αἱ μὲν ἐκλελοίπασιν αἱ δὲ ἀσθενεῖσ εἰσιν, ὥστε οὔτ’ ἐπιθυμητικοὶ οὔτε πρακτικοὶ κατὰ τὰσ ἐπιθυμίασ, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸ κέρδοσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 13 13:1)

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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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