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νευστικός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: neustikos

Principal Part: νευστικός νευστική νευστικόν

Structure: νευστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: νέω2

Sense

  1. able to swim

Examples

  • ζῳοθηρικῆς δὲ ἆρ οὐ διπλοῦν εἶδος ἂν λέγοιτο ἐν δίκῃ, τὸ μὲν πεζοῦ γένους, πολλοῖς εἴδεσι καὶ ὀνόμασι διῃρημένον, πεζοθηρικόν, τὸ δ ἕτερον νευστικοῦ ζῴου πᾶν ἐνυγροθηρικόν· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 25:4)
  • νευστικοῦ μὴν τὸ μὲν πτηνὸν φῦλον ὁρῶμεν, τὸ δὲ ἔνυδρον· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 26:1)
  • δίχα που νυνδὴ διείλομεν τὴν ἄγραν πᾶσαν, νευστικοῦ μέρους, τὸ δὲ πεζοῦ τέμνοντες. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 35:3)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν διήλθομεν, ὅσον περὶ τὰ νευστικὰ τῶν ἐνύδρων: (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 35:5)

Synonyms

  1. able to swim

Similar forms

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

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