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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

  • οἱο͂ν Ἱπποκράτησ γεωμετρικὸσ ὤν, ἀλλὰ περὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἐδόκει βλὰξ καὶ ἄφρων εἶναι, καὶ πολὺ χρυσίον πλέων ἀπώλεσεν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν Βυζαντίῳ πεντηκοστολόγων δι’ εὐήθειαν, ὡσ λέγουσιν ἀλλ’ ὅτι καὶ ἐν οἷσ εὐτυχοῦσιν ἄφρονεσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 8 20:2)
  • ἔσται γὰρ καὶ ὁ Εὔξενοσ Ἀρχίδαμοσ γεωμετρικόσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 4 3:4)
  • ὁ αὐτὸσ δυνατώτατοσ ψεύδεσθαι καὶ ἀληθῆ λέγειν περὶ τῶν διαγραμμάτων, ὁ γεωμετρικόσ; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 28:9)
  • ἂν οὕτωσ θαυμάσειεν ἀνὴρ γεωμετρικὸσ ὡσ εἰ γένοιτο ἡ διάμετροσ μετρητή. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 1 50:1)
  • ἆρ’ οὐδὲ γεωμετρικόσ; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 21:3)

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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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