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καινοτόμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καινοτόμος καινοτόμον

Structure: καινοτομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/mnw

Sense

  1. innovating

Examples

  • καὶ ὅτι ἀληθῆ ταῦτ’ ἐστὶ καὶ οὐδὲν ἐγὼ καινοτομῶ, λάβοι μὲν ἄν τισ καὶ ἐκ τῆσ Ἀριστοτέλουσ μαρτυρίασ τὴν πίστιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2523)
  • ἐκείνῳ ὅτι σοφὸσ ἤδη παρ’ Εὐθύφρονοσ τὰ θεῖα γέγονα καὶ ὅτι οὐκέτι ὑπ’ ἀγνοίασ αὐτοσχεδιάζω οὐδὲ καινοτομῶ περὶ αὐτά, καὶ δὴ καὶ τὸν ἄλλον βίον ὅτι ἄμεινον βιωσοίμην. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 85:1)

Synonyms

  1. innovating

Related

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

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