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κατασκευαστέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατασκευαστέος κατασκευαστέη κατασκευαστέον

Structure: κατασκευαστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from kataskeua/zw

Sense

  1. one must prepare or make

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

  • οἰκίαν δὲ πρόσ τε τὰ κτήματα ἀποβλέποντα κατασκευαστέον καὶ πρὸσ ὑγίειαν καὶ πρὸσ εὐημερίαν αὐτῶν· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 42:1)
  • ἐπεὶ μέντοι ἀνὰ τὰ πεδία οὐδὲ ἐν τῇ Φρυγίᾳ ἐδύνατο στρατεύεσθαι διὰ τὴν Φαρναβάζου ἱππείαν, ἔδοξεν αὐτῷ ἱππικὸν κατασκευαστέον εἶναι, ὡσ μὴ δραπετεύοντα πολεμεῖν δέοι αὐτόν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 25:1)
  • γιγνώσκων δὲ ὅτι εἰ μὴ ἱππικὸν ἱκανὸν κτήσαιτο, οὐ δυνήσοιτο κατὰ τὰ πεδία στρατεύεσθαι, ἔγνω τοῦτο κατασκευαστέον εἶναι, ὡσ μὴ δραπετεύοντα πολεμεῖν δέοι. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 19:3)
  • τοὺσ φύλακασ ἀκριβεστέρουσ τῶν πολλῶν περὶ ἀρετῆσ ἔργῳ καὶ λόγῳ κατασκευαστέον; (Plato, Laws, book 12 161:4)
  • τείχη κατασκευαστέον ἐν τοῖσ αὑτῶν ἀναλώτοισ λογισμοῖσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. a'. ANTISQENHS 13:3)

Synonyms

  1. one must prepare or make

Related

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

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