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μισθαρνικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισθαρνικός μισθαρνική μισθαρνικόν

Structure: μισθαρνικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: misqa/rnhs

Sense

  1. of or for hired work, mercenary

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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἀπ’ ἀνθρώπων, οὔθ’ ἑκόντων, ὥσπερ καπηλεία καὶ αἱ μισθαρνικαί, οὔτ’ ἀκόντων, ὥσπερ αἱ πολεμικαί. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 10:4)
  • κατὰ δὴ τὸν νῦν, ὦ Θεαίτητε, λόγον, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἡ τέχνησ οἰκειωτικῆσ, <χειρωτικῆσ>, κτητικῆσ, θηρευτικῆσ, ζῳοθηρίασ, πεζοθηρίασ, χερσαίασ, ἡμεροθηρικῆσ, ἀνθρωποθηρίασ, <πιθανοθηρίασ>, ἰδιοθηρίασ, μισθαρνικῆσ, νομισματοπωλικῆσ, δοξοπαιδευτικῆσ, νέων πλουσίων καὶ ἐνδόξων γιγνομένη θήρα προσρητέον, ὡσ ὁ νῦν λόγοσ ἡμῖν συμβαίνει, σοφιστική. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 44:1)

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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