Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κηπουρικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κηπουρικός κηπουρική κηπουρικόν

Structure: κηπουρικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from khpouro/s

Sense

  1. of or for gardening

Examples

  • αὕτη δ’ ἔχει τὸ μὲν φύλλον σκολυμῶδεσ, ὀρθὴ δὲ καὶ εὐαυξὴσ καὶ ἀπαράβλαστόσ ἐστιν ἐκ τοῦ καυλοῦ, τῶν δὲ πλατειῶν οὕτω τινὲσ γίνονται πλατύκαυλοι ὥστ’ ἐνίουσ καὶ θύραισ χρῆσθαι κηπουρικαῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 79 1:5)
  • κηπουρικοὶ ἄρα νόμοι ἡμῖν εἰσιν οὗτοι. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 22:8)
  • οὐκοῦν καὶ ὃ μὲν ἂν ὀρθὸν ᾖ, νόμιμον αὐτὸ φήσομεν ἑκάστῳ εἶναι, ἢ τὸ ἰατρικὸν ἢ τὸ μαγειρικὸν ἢ τὸ κηπουρικόν; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 25:8)

Synonyms

  1. of or for gardening

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

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