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γραπτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: γραπτέος γραπτέα γραπτέον

Structure: γραπτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gra/fw의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must describe
  2. to be described

Examples

  • μετὰ δὲ ταύτην ἡ τῆσ σοφίασ καὶ συνέσεωσ εἰκὼν γραπτέα. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 17:1)
  • γραπτέον Ναὶσ καὶ οὐ Λαΐσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 62 2:3)
  • μήποτ’ οὖν καὶ παρὰ τῷ Ἡροδότῳ ὡσ καὶ παρὰ τῷ Δημοσθένει γραπτέον Λυκιοεργέασ, ἵν’ ἀκούηται τὰ ἐν Λυκίᾳ εἰργασμένα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 72 2:6)
  • εἰ δέ μοι ἐφαίνετο γραπτέα θ’ ἱκανῶσ εἶναι πρὸσ τοὺσ πολλοὺσ καὶ ῥητά, τί τούτου κάλλιον ἐπέπρακτ’ ἂν ἡμῖν ἐν τῷ βίῳ ἢ τοῖσ τε ἀνθρώποισι μέγα ὄφελοσ γράψαι καὶ τὴν φύσιν εἰσ φῶσ πᾶσιν προαγαγεῖν; (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 117:3)
  • καὶ περὶ μὲν τὰσ ἀκριβεῖσ καὶ αὐτάρκεισ τῶν ἐπιστημῶν οὐκ ἔστι βουλή, οἱο͂ν περὶ γραμμάτων οὐ γὰρ διστάζομεν πῶσ γραπτέον· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 45:1)

Synonyms

  1. one must describe

  2. to be described

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

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