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εὐδαιμονικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐδαιμονικός εὐδαιμονική εὐδαιμονικόν

Structure: εὐδαιμονικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)dai/mwn

Sense

  1. conducive to happiness, the constituents thereof

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative εὐδαιμονικός εὐδαιμονική εὐδαιμονικόν
Genitive εὐδαιμονικοῦ εὐδαιμονικῆς εὐδαιμονικοῦ
Dative εὐδαιμονικῷ εὐδαιμονικῇ εὐδαιμονικῷ
Accusative εὐδαιμονικόν εὐδαιμονικήν εὐδαιμονικόν
Vocative εὐδαιμονικέ εὐδαιμονική εὐδαιμονικόν
DualN/A/V εὐδαιμονικώ εὐδαιμονικᾱ́ εὐδαιμονικώ
G/D εὐδαιμονικοῖν εὐδαιμονικαῖν εὐδαιμονικοῖν
PluralNominative εὐδαιμονικοί εὐδαιμονικαί εὐδαιμονικά
Genitive εὐδαιμονικῶν εὐδαιμονικῶν εὐδαιμονικῶν
Dative εὐδαιμονικοῖς εὐδαιμονικαῖς εὐδαιμονικοῖς
Accusative εὐδαιμονικούς εὐδαιμονικᾱ́ς εὐδαιμονικά
Vocative εὐδαιμονικοί εὐδαιμονικαί εὐδαιμονικά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective εὐδαιμονικός εὐδαιμονικοῦ εὐδαιμονικότερος εὐδαιμονικοτεροῦ εὐδαιμονικότατος εὐδαιμονικοτατοῦ
Adverb εὐδαιμονικώς εὐδαιμονικότερον εὐδαιμονικότατα

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

  • εὐδαιμονικόν γ’ ἄνθρωπον εἴρηκασ σαφῶσ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode15)
  • "τῷ εὐδαιμονικῷ καλου μένῳ Ἀναξάρχῳ διὰ τὴν τῶν χορηγησάντων ἄγνοιαν περιπεσούσησ ἐξουσίασ γυμνὴ μὲν ᾠνοχόει παιδίσκη πρόσηβοσ ἡ προκριθεῖσα διαφέρειν ὡρ́ᾳ τῶν ἄλλων, ἀνασύρουσα πρὸσ ἀλήθειαν τὴν τῶν οὕτωσ αὐτῇ χρωμένων ἀκρασίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 702)
  • "Σάτυροσ δ’ ἐν τοῖσ βίοισ Ἀνάξαρχόν φησι τὸν εὐδαιμονικὸν φιλόσοφον ἕνα τῶν Ἀλεξάνδρου γενέσθαι κολάκων καὶ συνοδεύοντα τῷ βασιλεῖ, ἐπεὶ ἐγένετό ποτε βροντὴ ἰσχυρὰ καὶ ἐξαίσιοσ ὡσ πάντασ πτῆξαι, εἰπεῖν μή τι σὺ τοιοῦτον ἐποίησασ, Ἀλέξανδρε, ὁ τοῦ Διόσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 55 3:21)
  • τήρησιν εὐδαιμονικὸν ἔργον ἡγεῖτο καὶ μακάριον, τίσ ἂν ἐζήλωσε τὴν ἀνόητον ταύτην πρόνοιαν καὶ κενόσπουδον ἐπιμέλειαν; (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 22 8:1)
  • εὐδαιμονικὸν γὰρ καὶ καλὸν καὶ τὸ προσεπικτᾶσθαι τιμήν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 9 31:2)
  • οὐ πάνυ γὰρ εὐδαιμονικὸσ ὁ τὴν ἰδέαν παναίσχησ ἢ δυσγενὴσ ἢ μονώτησ καὶ ἄτεκνοσ, ἔτι δ’ ἴσωσ ἧττον, εἴ τῳ πάγκακοι παῖδεσ εἰε͂ν ἢ φίλοι, ἢ ἀγαθοὶ ὄντεσ τεθνᾶσιν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 90:2)
  • Οὗτοσ διὰ τὴν ἀπάθειαν καὶ εὐκολίαν τοῦ βίου Εὐδαιμονικὸσ ἐκαλεῖτο· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. i'. ANACARXOS 3:1)

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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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