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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

  • ταύταισ ἐχρήσατο ταῖσ ἀρχαῖσ ἐπὶ πλέον Ἀριστοτέλησ, ὡσ δῆλόν ἐστιν ἐξ ὧν ἔγραψεν ὕστερον δὲ τὸ μὲν θυμοειδὲσ τῷ ἐπιθυμητικῷ προσένειμεν, ὡσ ἐπιθυμίαν τινὰ τὸν θυμὸν ὄντα καὶ ὄρεξιν ἀντιλυπήσεωσ. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 3 15:1)
  • ὕστερον δὲ τὸ μὲν θυμοειδὲσ τῷ ἐπιθυμητικῷ προσένειμεν, ὡσ ἐπιθυμίαν τινὰ τὸν θυμὸν ὄντα καὶ ὄρεξιν ἀντιλυπήσεωσ. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 3 6:2)
  • ἴσωσ, ἔφη, τῷ ἑτέρῳ, τῷ ἐπιθυμητικῷ. (Plato, Republic, book 4 469:1)

Related

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

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