Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • δεινὸν γὰρ ἡγεῖτο τοὺσ μὲν ἱππικοὺσ καὶ κυνηγετικοὺσ ἐπιμελείᾳ καὶ σννηθείᾳ καὶ τροφῇ μᾶλλον ἢ μάστιξι καὶ κλοιοῖσ τὴν χαλεπότητα τῶν ζῴων καὶ τὸ θυμούμενον καὶ τὸ δυσκολαῖνον ἐξαιρεῖν, τὸν δ’ ἀνθρώπων ἄρχοντα μὴ τὸ πλεῖστον ἐν χάριτι καὶ πρᾳότητι τῆσ ἐπανορθώσεωσ τίθεσθαι, σκληρότερον δὲ προσφέρεσθαι καὶ βιαιότερον ἤπερ οἱ γεωργοῦντεσ ἐρινεοῖσ καὶ ἀχράσι καὶ κοτίνοισ προσφέρονται, τὰ μὲν εἰσ ἐλαίασ, τὰ δ’ εἰσ ἀπίουσ, τὰ δ’ εἰσ συκᾶσ ἐξημεροῦντεσ καὶ τιθασεύοντεσ. (Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, chapter 20 3:1)
  • "ἀλειπτικοὺσ δὲ καὶ κυνηγετικοὺσ καὶ γεωργικοὺσ συνάγω. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 29:10)

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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