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κοσμητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοσμητικός κοσμητική κοσμητικόν

Structure: κοσμητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from kosmhth/s

Sense

  1. skilled in arranging, the art of dress and ornament

Examples

  • τῶν αἰτιῶν δὴ πλυντικὴν μὲν καὶ ἀκεστικὴν καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν περὶ ταῦτα θεραπευτικήν, πολλῆσ οὔσησ τῆσ κοσμητικῆσ, τοὐνταῦθα αὐτῆσ μόριον εἰκὸσ μάλιστα περιλαμβάνειν ὀνομάζοντασ πᾶν τῇ τέχνῃ τῇ κναφευτικῇ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 151:1)

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

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