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κυνηγετικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυνηγετικός κυνηγετική κυνηγετικόν

Structure: κυνηγετικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from kunhge/ths

Sense

  1. of or for hunting, fond of the chase

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

  • Ξενοφῶντι τῷ Γρύλλου λέλεκται μὲν ὅσα ἀγαθὰ ἀνθρώποισ ἀπὸ κυνηγεσίων γίγνεται, καὶ οἱ παιδευθέντεσ ὑπὸ Χείρωνι τὴν παίδευσιν ταύτην ὅπωσ θεοφιλεῖσ τε ἦσαν καὶ ἔντιμοι ἀνὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, λέλεκται δὲ καὶ καθ̓ ὅ τι ἐοίκεν τῇ πολεμικῇ ἐπιστήμῃ ἡ κυνηγετική, καὶ ἥντινα ἡλικίαν ἔχοντα χρὴ ἐλθεῖν ἐπὶ τὸ ἔργον, καὶ τὸ εἶδοσ καὶ τὴν γνώμην ὁποῖόν τινα· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 1 1:1)
  • διόπερ ὡσ ἐπ’ ὠφελείᾳ τῶν ἀνθρώπων τοῦτο ποιοῦσα τῇ κυνηγετικῇ θεῷ ἡ κυνηγέτισ ἀνάκειται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 126 2:2)
  • ἡ γάρ που κυνηγετικὴ κυνῶν θεραπεία. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 67:9)

Synonyms

  1. of or for hunting

Related

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

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