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

  • ἦν δ’ οὐδέτερα τούτων, ἀλλ’ ἄσκησισ ὡσ ἐοίκε καὶ ἀναχώρησισ εἰσ ἑαυτὸ τοῦ μιμητικοῦ, καθάπερ ὄργανον ἐξαρτυομένου τὴν φωνὴν καὶ παρασκευάζοντοσ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 19 13:2)

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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