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γεωμετρικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: γεωμετρικός

Structure: γεωμετρικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from gewme/trhs

Sense

  1. of or for geometry, geometrical, geometry
  2. skilled in geometry, a geometrician

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

  • ἦν μὲν οὖν καὶ ταῦτα παρορμητικὰ πρὸσ γάμον λέγω δὲ τὰσ πομπὰσ τῶν παρθένων καὶ τὰσ ἀποδύσεισ καὶ τοὺσ ἀγῶνασ ἐν ὄψει τῶν νέων, ἀγομένων οὐ γεωμετρικαῖσ, ἀλλ’ ἐρωτικαῖσ, ὥσ φησιν ὁ Πλάτων, ἀνάγκαισ· (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 15 1:1)
  • οὐ γεωμετρικαῖσ γε, ἦ δ’ ὅσ, ἀλλ’ ἐρωτικαῖσ ἀνάγκαισ, αἳ κινδυνεύουσιν ἐκείνων δριμύτεραι εἶναι πρὸσ τὸ πείθειν τε καὶ ἕλκειν τὸν πολὺν λεών. (Plato, Republic, book 5 219:1)

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

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