Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λεκτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λεκτέος λεκτέᾱ λεκτέον

Structure: λεκτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: le/gw3의 분사형

Sense

  1. to be said or spoken
  2. one must speak

Examples

  • παρασιτική ἐστιν τέχνη ποτέων καὶ βρωτέων καὶ τῶν διὰ ταῦτα λεκτέων καὶ πρακτέων,^ τέλοσ δὲ αὐτῆσ τὸ ἡδύ. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 9:5)
  • ὑπὸ γὰρ ἀσθενείασ τῆσ ἐν τοῖσ χρησίμοισ ἢ ἀγνοίασ τῶν λεκτέων ἐπὶ τὰσ τοιαύτασ τῶν χωρίων καὶ ἄντρων ἐκφράσεισ τρέπονται, καὶ ὁπόταν ἐσ πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα πράγματα ἐμπέσωσιν, ἐοίκασιν οἰκέτῃ νεοπλούτῳ, ἄρτι κληρονομήσαντι τοῦ δεσπότου, ὃσ οὔτε τὴν ἐσθῆτα οἶδεν ὡσ χρὴ περιβαλέσθαι οὔτε δειπνῆσαι κατὰ νόμον, ἀλλ̓ ἐμπηδήσασ, πολλάκισ ὀρνίθων καὶ συείων καὶ λαγῴων προκειμένων, ὑπερεμπίπλαται ἔτνουσ τινὸσ ἢ ταρίχουσ, ἔστ̓ ἂν διαρραγῇ ἐσθίων. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 201)
  • δυνάμει δὲ καὶ τότε φροιμίῳ χρήσεται τῷ ἀποσαφοῦντι περὶ τῶν λεκτέων. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 522)
  • τάχοσ ἐπὶ πᾶσι χρήσιμον, καὶ μάλιστα εἰ μὴ ἀπορία τῶν λεκτέων εἰή· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 561)

Synonyms

  1. to be said or spoken

  2. one must speak

Related

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

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