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εὐσύνετος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: eusynetos

Principal Part: εὐσύνετος εὐσύνετη εὐσύνετον

Structure: εὐσυνετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. quick of apprehension, with intelligence
  2. easily understood

Examples

  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἡ σύνεσις καὶ ἡ εὐσυνεσία, καθ ἃς λέγομεν συνετοὺς καὶ εὐσυνέτους, οὔθ ὅλως τὸ αὐτὸ ἐπιστήμῃ ἢ δόξῃ πάντες γὰρ ἂν ἦσαν συνετοί οὔτε τις μία τῶν κατὰ μέρος ἐπιστημῶν, οἱο῀ν ἡ ἰατρικὴ περὶ ὑγιεινῶν, ἡ γεωμετρία περὶ μεγέθη: (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 73:2)
  • ταὐτὸ γὰρ σύνεσις καὶ εὐσυνεσία καὶ συνετοὶ καὶ εὐσύνετοι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 77:1)
  • καὶ ἐντεῦθεν ἐλήλυθε τοὔνομα ἡ σύνεσις, καθ ἣν εὐσύνετοι, ἐκ τῆς ἐν τῷ μανθάνειν: (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 78:2)

Synonyms

  1. easily understood

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

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