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καθαρευτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καθαρευτέος καθαρευτέα καθαρευτέον

Structure: καθαρευτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: 분사형of kaqareu/w

Sense

  1. one must keep oneself clean

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

  • πάνυ ἀνιάσεται, ἢν πάντεσ Ἀβδηρῖται ἑκόντεσ Ἀνδρομέδαν τραγῳδῶσι Διττοῦ δὲ ὄντοσ τοῦ τῆσ συμβουλῆσ ἔργου, τὰ μεν γὰρ αἱρεῖσθαι, τὰ δὲ φεύγειν διδάσκει, φέρε πρῶτα εἴπωμεν ἅτινα φευκτέον τῷ ἱστορίαν συγγράφοντι καὶ ὧν μάλιστα καθαρευτέον, ἔπειτα οἷσ χρώμενοσ οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοι τῆσ ὀρθῆσ καὶ ἐπ̓ εὐθὺ ἀγούσησ, ἀρχήν τε οἱάν αὐτῷ ἀρκτέον καὶ τάξιν ἥντινα τοῖσ ἔργοισ ἐφαρμοστέον καὶ μέτρον ἑκάστου καὶ ἃ σιωπητέον καὶ οἷσ ἐνδιατριπτέον καὶ ὅσα παραδραμεῖν ἄμεινον καὶ ὅπωσ ἑρμηνεῦσαι αὐτὰ καὶ συναρμόσαι. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 5 2:1)
  • περὶ ἀφροδίσια εἰσ δύναμιν πρὸ γάμου καθαρευτέον· (Epictetus, Works, chapter 33 7:3)

Synonyms

  1. one must keep oneself clean

Similar forms

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

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