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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

  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ ὁ ἀκόλαστοσ καὶ ὁ ἐπιθυμητικὸσ καὶ ὁ ὑπερβάλλων πᾶσιν ὅσοισ ἐνδέχεται, ἀναίσθητοσ δὲ ὁ ἐλλείπων καὶ μηδ’ ὅσον βέλτιον καὶ κατὰ τὴν φύσιν ἐπιθυμῶν, ἀλλ’ ἀπαθὴσ ὥσπερ λίθοσ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 58:3)

Related

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

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