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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

  • Καὶ ᾖρα τοὺσ ὀφθαλμούσ μου καὶ εἶδον καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀνὴρ καὶ ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ σχοινίον γεωμετρικόν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 2:5)
  • ἐν δὴ τούτοισ καὶ Ἱππίου τουτουὶ τοῦ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ μεμνῆσθαι ἄξιον, ἀνδρὸσ λόγοισ μὲν παρ’ ὅντινα βούλει τῶν πρὸ αὐτοῦ γεγυμνασμένου καὶ συνεῖναί τε ὀξέοσ καὶ ἑρμηνεῦσαι σαφεστάτου, τὰ δὲ ἔργα πολὺ τῶν λόγων ἀμείνω παρεχομένου καὶ τὴν τῆσ τέχνησ ὑπόσχεσιν ἀποπληροῦντοσ, οὐκ ἐν τοιαύταισ μὲν ὑποθέσεσιν ἐν αἷσ οἱ πρὸ αὐτοῦ πρῶτοι γενέσθαι εὐτύχησαν, κατὰ δὲ τὸν γεωμετρικὸν λόγον ἐπὶ τῆσ δοθείσησ, φασίν, εὐθείασ τὸ τρίγωνον ἀκριβῶσ συνισταμένου. (Lucian, (no name) 3:2)
  • "οὐ παυσόμεθα πρὸσ τὸν γεωμετρικὸν τοῦτον Βριάρεων πολεμοῦντεσ, ὃσ ταῖσ μὲν ναυσὶν ἡμῶν κυαθίζει ἐκ τῆσ θαλάσσησ, τὴν δὲ σαμβύκην ῥαπίζων μετ’ αἰσχύνησ ἐκβέβληκε, τοὺσ δὲ μυθικοὺσ ἑκατόγχειρασ ὑπεραίρει τοσαῦτα βάλλων ἅμα βέλη καθ’ ἡμῶν; (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 17 1:1)
  • Περὶ γεωργίησ ἢ Γεωμετρικόν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. z'. DHMOKRITOS 16:24)

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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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