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εὐέλεγκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐέλεγκτος εὐέλεγκτη εὐέλεγκτον

Structure: εὐελεγκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. easy to refute: easy to test

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

  • διὸ ἢ πρὸσ πάντα ἢ τὰ μέγιστα ἢ τὰ εὐδοκιμοῦντα ἢ τὰ εὐέλεγκτα μαχεσάμενον οὕτω τὰ αὑτοῦ πιστὰ ποιητέον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 17 15:5)
  • ταῦτα, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ ἀληθῆ ἐστιν καὶ εὐέλεγκτα. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 161:5)
  • καὶ κατὰ τὸν λόγον ἐστὶν εὐέλεγκτα καὶ τοῖσ ἔργοισ ἐξελήλεγκται νῦν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 244:1)

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

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