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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

  • ἢ πλοίων μὲν ἄρχοντασ οὐ ποιεῖ γράμματα κυβερνητικά, μὴ πολλάκισ γενομένουσ ἐν πρύμνῃ θεατὰσ τῶν πρὸσ κῦμα καὶ πνεῦμα καὶ νύκτα χειμέριον ἀγώνων, ὅτε Τυνδαριδᾶν ἀδελφῶν ἅλιον ναύταν πόθοσ βάλλει; (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 12 2:3)
  • διωρισμένων δὲ τούτων, ληπτέον ὅτι ἐν ἅπαντι συνεχεῖ καὶ διαιρετῷ ἐστιν ὑπεροχὴ καὶ ἔλλειψισ καὶ μέσον, καὶ ταῦτα ἢ πρὸσ ἄλληλα ἢ πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ, οἱο͂ν ἐν γυμναστικῇ, ἐν ἰατρικῇ, ἐν οἰκοδομικῇ, ἐν κυβερνητικῇ, καὶ ἐν ὁποιᾳοῦν πράξει, καὶ ἐπιστημονικῇ καὶ ἀνεπιστημονικῇ, καὶ τεχνικῇ καὶ ἀτέχνῳ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 49:1)
  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἐν οἷσ τέχνη ἐστί, πολὺ μέντοι καὶ τύχησ ἐνυπάρχει, οἱο͂ν ἐν στρατηγίᾳ καὶ κυβερνητικῇ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 8 18:1)
  • κυβερνητικῆσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2 17:1)
  • 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)

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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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