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ἐθιστός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐθιστός ἐθιστή ἐθιστόν

Structure: ἐθιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)qi/zw의 분사형

Sense

  1. to be acquired by habit

Examples

  • ἔστιν δὲ καὶ τὸ σύνηθεσ καὶ τὸ ἐθιστὸν ἐν τοῖσ ἡδέσιν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 10 18:3)
  • ὅθεν καὶ ἀπορεῖται πότερόν ἐστι μαθητὸν ἢ ἐθιστὸν ἢ καὶ ἄλλωσ πωσ ἀσκητόν, ἢ κατά τινα θείαν μοῖραν ἢ καὶ διὰ τύχην παραγίνεται. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 91:3)

Synonyms

  1. to be acquired by habit

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

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