Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μιμητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μιμητικός μιμητική μιμητικόν

Structure: μιμητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mime/omai

Sense

  1. good at imitating, imitative, the power of imitating

Examples

  • πολλὰ δὲ καὶ παρὰ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν λαμβάνουσιν ὡσ ἐκεῖνοι κατεσκεύασαν, ὅσα μιμητικὰ τῶν πραγμάτων ἐστίν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 162)

Synonyms

  1. good at imitating

Related

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

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