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κυβερνητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυβερνητικός κυβερνητική κυβερνητικόν

Structure: κυβερνητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from kubernh/ths

Sense

  1. good at steering, the pilot's art

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

  • ἀλλ’ ὅσα γίνεται δι’ ἡμῶν, μὴ ὡσαύτωσ δ’ ἀεί, περὶ τούτων βουλευόμεθα, οἱο͂ν περὶ τῶν κατ’ ἰατρικὴν καὶ χρηματιστικήν, καὶ περὶ κυβερνητικὴν μᾶλλον ἢ γυμναστικήν, ὅσῳ ἧττον διηκρίβωται, καὶ ἔτι περὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ὁμοίωσ, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ περὶ τὰσ τέχνασ ἢ τὰσ ἐπιστήμασ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 45:2)
  • ἆρα οὐ κυβερνητικήν; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 14:6)
  • εἰ δέ τισ ἀνάγκη ζῆν εἰή, δούλῳ ἄμεινον ἢ ἐλευθέρῳ διάγειν τῷ τοιούτῳ τὸν βίον ἐστὶν ἄρα, καθάπερ πλοίου παραδόντι τὰ πηδάλια τῆσ διανοίασ ἄλλῳ, τῷ μαθόντι τὴν τῶν ἀνθρώπων κυβερνητικήν, ἣν δὴ σὺ πολιτικήν, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, ἐπονομάζεισ πολλάκισ, τὴν αὐτὴν δὴ ταύτην δικαστικήν τε καὶ δικαιοσύνην ὡσ ἔστιν λέγων. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 11:4)
  • καὶ μὴν ἰατρικήν τε καὶ γεωργίαν καὶ κυβερνητικὴν καὶ στρατηγικὴν ὡσαύτωσ εὑρήσομεν ἐχούσασ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 273:1)
  • μείζω ταύτησ ἐρῶ, τὴν κυβερνητικήν, ἣ οὐ μόνον τὰσ ψυχὰσ σῴζει ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ σώματα καὶ τὰ χρήματα ἐκ τῶν ἐσχάτων κινδύνων, ὥσπερ ἡ ῥητορική. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 393:1)

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

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