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ἐπιτήδειος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιτήδειος ἐπιτηδείᾱ ἐπιτήδειον

Structure: ἐπιτηδει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)pithde/s

Sense

  1. fit, suitable

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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἐπιτήδειαι ὀρεοπολεῖν, οὕτωσ γε οὖσαι καλαί. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 7:4)
  • αἱ γὰρ καθάρσιεσ οὐκ ἐπιγίνονται τῶν ἐπιμηνίων ἐπιτήδειαι, ἀλλὰ ὀλίγαι καὶ πονηραί. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , iv.11)
  • καίτοι εἴ τισιν ἄρα δοκοῦσ’ ἐπιτήδειαι ’κεῖναι παθεῖν, ἀλλὰ τὸ πρᾶγμά γ’ οὐκ ἐπιτήδειον γίγνεσθαι, τηλικοῦτό τινασ φρονεῖν διὰ καιρὸν ὥστε βαδίζειν ἐπ’ οἰκίασ καὶ σκεύη φέρειν μηδὲν ὀφειλόντων ἀνθρώπων. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 71:1)
  • ἡμέτερον δὴ ἔργον ἂν εἰή, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, εἴπερ οἱοῖ́ τ’ ἐσμέν, ἐκλέξασθαι τίνεσ τε καὶ ποῖαι φύσεισ ἐπιτήδειαι εἰσ πόλεωσ φυλακήν. (Plato, Republic, book 2 253:1)
  • "ἐνταῦθα δὲ συνίστανται βῶλοι μεγάλαι πρὸσ τὰσ "οἰκοδομὰσ ἐπιτήδειαι τὰσ διὰ τῆσ ὀπτῆσ πλίνθου. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 30:4)

Synonyms

  1. fit

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