Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • καὶ πρὸσ το λοιπὸν ἄρα ἔχωμεν τουτονὶ κανόνα καὶ στάθμην ἀκριβῆ τῶν τοιούτων, ὡσ Ἑρμότιμόσ φησι, καὶ χρὴ ἀπὸ σχημάτων καὶ βαδισμάτων καὶ κουρᾶσ διαγιγνώσκειν τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ, ὃσ δ̓ ἂν μὴ ἔχῃ ταῦτα μηδὲ σκυθρωπὸσ ᾖ καὶ φροντιστικὸσ τὸ πρόσωπον, ἀποδοκιμαστέοσ καὶ ἀποβλητέοσ; (Lucian, 37:1)
  • συνεχῶσ μὲν γὰρ ἐμπιπλάμενοσ ἀμελὴσ γίνεται ἄνθρωποσ, ὑποπίνων δὲ πάνυ φροντιστικόσ, Ἀντιφάνησ φησίν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 11 2:1)

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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