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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

  • "ταύτην οὖν ἔχουσαι τὴν δύναμιν αἱ ψυχαὶ σύμφυτον μὲν ἀλλ’ ἀμυδρὰν καὶ δυσφάνταστον, ὅμωσ ἐξανθοῦσι πολλάκισ καὶ ἀναλαμβάνουσιν ἔν τε τοῖσ ἐνυπνίοισ καὶ περὶ τὰσ τελευτὰσ ἔνιαι, καθαροῦ γιγνομένου τοῦ σώματοσ ἤ τινα κρᾶσιν οἰκείαν πρὸσ τοῦτο λαμβάνοντοσ, ἢ τῷ τὸ λογιστικὸν καὶ φροντιστικὸν ἀνίεσθαι καὶ ἀπολύεσθαι τῶν παρόντων τῷ ἀλόγῳ καὶ φαντασιαστικῷ τοῦ μέλλοντοσ ἐπιστρεφόμεναι. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 401)
  • ὥσπερ ἐνταῦθα τὰ μὲν θυμοειδῆ τὸ φιλοκίνδυνον καὶ τὸ ἀνδρεῖον ἀσκεῖ τῶν μαχομένων, τὰ δὲ πανοῦργα τὸ φροντιστικὸν καὶ συνετὸν τῶν ἐπιτιθεμένων, τὰ δὲ ποδώκη τὸ ῥωμαλέον καὶ φιλόπονον τῶν διωκόντων. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 9 4:1)

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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