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φωνασκικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φωνασκικός φωνασκική φωνασκικόν

Structure: φωνασκικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from fwnasko/s

Sense

  1. of or for exercising the voice

Examples

  • καὶ λοιπὸν ἑώθεν ἀνιστάμενοσ ταῦτα τηρεῖ καὶ φυλάσσει, λούεται ὡσ πιστόσ, ὡσ αἰδήμων ἐσθίει, ὡσαύτωσ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἀεὶ παραπιπτούσησ ὕλησ τὰ προηγούμενα ἐκπονῶν, ὡσ ὁ δρομεὺσ δρομικῶσ καὶ ὁ φώνασκοσ φωνασκικῶσ· (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 20:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for exercising the voice

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

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