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μέθοδος

Second declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέθοδος

Structure: μεθοδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: meta/

Sense

  1. following after, pursuit
  2. pursuit of knowledge, investigation, inquiry; hence, treatise, mode of prosecuting such inquiry, method, system, plan
  3. doctrine
  4. (rhetoric) means, means of recognizing
  5. mode of treating the subject-matter

Declension

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

  • ὑπὲρ δὲ τῶν εἴκοσιν ἐτῶν, ὅτι βιώσῃ τοσαῦτα, πότερον ὁ διδάσκαλόσ σου καθυπέσχετο, οὐ μόνον σοφόσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ μαντικὸσ ὢν ἢ χρησμολόγοσ τισ ἢ ὅσοι τὰσ Χαλδαίων μεθόδουσ ἐπίστανται; (Lucian, 13:7)
  • καὶ τῆσ γε περὶ τὰσ ἀπόρουσ καὶ ἀρρήτουσ λεγομένασ ἐν γεωμετρίᾳ μεθόδουσ πραγματείασ πρόσ τινα τῶν ἀναξίων ἐκδοθείσησ, ἔφασαν ἐπισημαίνειν τὸ δαιμόνιον μεγάλῳ τινὶ καὶ κοινῷ κακῷ τὴν γεγενημένην παρανομίαν καὶ ἀσέβειαν ἐπεξερχόμενον. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 22 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. following after

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