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οἰκοδομικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκοδομικός οἰκοδομική οἰκοδομικόν

Structure: οἰκοδομικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: oi)kodo/mos

Sense

  1. practised or skilful in building, the art of building, architecture

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

  • εἰ οὖν παρεκαλοῦμεν ἀλλήλουσ, ὦ Καλλίκλεισ, δημοσίᾳ πράξοντεσ τῶν πολιτικῶν πραγμάτων ἐπὶ τὰ οἰκοδομικά, ἢ τειχῶν ἢ νεωρίων ἢ ἱερῶν ἐπὶ τὰ μέγιστα οἰκοδομήματα, πότερον ἔδει ἂν ἡμᾶσ σκέψασθαι ἡμᾶσ αὐτοὺσ καὶ ἐξετάσαι πρῶτον μὲν εἰ ἐπιστάμεθα τὴν τέχνην ἢ οὐκ ἐπιστάμεθα, τὴν οἰκοδομικήν, καὶ παρὰ τοῦ ἐμάθομεν; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 409:2)

Synonyms

  1. practised or skilful in building

Related

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

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