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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

  • καίτοι λέγουσιν οἱ γεωμετρικοὶ μήτε ὄρουσ ὕψοσ μήτε βάθοσ θαλάττησ ὑπερβάλλειν δέκα σταδίουσ. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 15 7:1)
  • σημεῖον δ’ ἐστὶ τοῦ εἰρημένου καὶ διότι γεωμετρικοὶ μὲν νέοι καὶ μαθηματικοὶ γίνονται καὶ σοφοὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα, φρόνιμοσ δ’ οὐ δοκεῖ γίνεσθαι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 61:2)
  • μᾶλλον γὰρ ἕκαστα κρίνουσι καὶ ἐξακριβοῦσιν οἱ μεθ’ ἡδονῆσ ἐνεργοῦντεσ, οἱο͂ν γεωμετρικοὶ γίνονται οἱ χαίροντεσ τῷ γεωμετρεῖν, καὶ κατανοοῦσιν ἕκαστα μᾶλλον, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ οἱ φιλόμουσοι καὶ φιλοικοδόμοι καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστοι ἐπιδιδόασιν εἰσ τὸ οἰκεῖον ἔργον χαίροντεσ αὐτῷ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 55:3)

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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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