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μελαγχολικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελαγχολικός μελαγχολική μελαγχολικόν

Structure: μελαγχολικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from mela/gxolos

Sense

  1. atrabilious, choleric

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

  • διὸ οἱ μελαγχολικοὶ καὶ εὐθυόνειροι. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 8 44:3)
  • μάλιστα δ’ οἱ ὀξεῖσ καὶ μελαγχολικοὶ τὴν προπετῆ ἀκρασίαν εἰσὶν ἀκρατεῖσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 99:3)
  • εὐιατοτέρα δὲ τῶν ἀκρασιῶν, ἣν οἱ μελαγχολικοὶ ἀκρατεύονται, τῶν βουλευομένων μὲν μὴ ἐμμενόντων δέ, καὶ οἱ δι’ ἐθισμοῦ ἀκρατεῖσ τῶν φυσικῶν· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 127:3)
  • οἱ δὲ μελαγχολικοὶ τὴν φύσιν δέονται ἀεὶ ἰατρείασ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 168:1)

Related

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

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