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φροντιστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φροντιστικός φροντιστική φροντιστικόν

Structure: φροντιστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from frontisth/s

Sense

  1. thoughtful

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

  • ἢ μᾶλλον ὡσ νῦν ὀνομάζουσιν αὐτὴν Ὥραν μηκυνομένησ τῆσ προτέρασ συλλαβῆσ, ἐπιστρεφῆ τινα καὶ πολυωρητικὴν θεόν, ἣν διαφυλακτικὴν καὶ φροντιστικὴν οὖσαν οὐδέποτε ῥᾴθυμον οὐδ’ ὀλίγωρον εἶναι τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ἐνόμιζον; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 46 1:3)
  • ὡρ́αν μηκυνομένησ τῆσ προτέρασ συλλαβῆσ, ἐπιστρεφῆ τινα καὶ πολυωρητικὴν θεόν, ἣν διαφυλακτικὴν καὶ φροντιστικὴν οὖσαν οὐδέποτε ῥάθυμον οὐδ’ ὀλίγωρον εἶναι τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ἐνόμιζον; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 46 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. thoughtful

Related

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

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