Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μισθαρνητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισθαρνητικός μισθαρνητική μισθαρνητικόν

Structure: μισθαρνητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from misqa/rnhs

Sense

  1. of or for hired work, mercenary, the trade of one who takes wages or pay

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

  • οὐκοῦν αὖ τῆσ ἰδιοθηρευτικῆσ τὸ μὲν μισθαρνητικόν ἐστιν, τὸ δὲ δωροφορικόν; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 40:6)
  • τοῦ δέ γε μισθαρνητικοῦ τὸ μὲν προσομιλοῦν διὰ χάριτοσ καὶ παντάπασι δι’ ἡδονῆσ τὸ δέλεαρ πεποιημένον καὶ τὸν μισθὸν πραττόμενον τροφὴν ἑαυτῷ μόνον κολακικήν, ὡσ ἐγᾦμαι, πάντεσ φαῖμεν ἂν <ἢ> ἡδυντικήν τινα τέχνην εἶναι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 41:5)
  • τὴν ἰατρικὴν μισθαρνητικήν, ἐὰν ἰώμενόσ τισ μισθαρνῇ; (Plato, Republic, book 1 409:2)
  • οὐκ ἄρα ἀπὸ τῆσ αὑτοῦ τέχνησ ἑκάστῳ αὕτη ἡ ὠφελία ἐστίν, ἡ τοῦ μισθοῦ λῆψισ, ἀλλ’, εἰ δεῖ ἀκριβῶσ σκοπεῖσθαι, ἡ μὲν ἰατρικὴ ὑγίειαν ποιεῖ, ἡ δὲ μισθαρνητικὴ μισθόν, καὶ ἡ μὲν οἰκοδομικὴ οἰκίαν, ἡ δὲ μισθαρνητικὴ αὐτῇ ἑπομένη μισθόν, καὶ αἱ ἄλλαι πᾶσαι οὕτωσ τὸ αὑτῆσ ἑκάστη ἔργον ἐργάζεται καὶ ὠφελεῖ ἐκεῖνο ἐφ’ ᾧ τέτακται. (Plato, Republic, book 1 419:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for hired work

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

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