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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

  • καὶ εἰ τοίνυν με ἔροιο τὴν οἰκοδομικήν, ἐπιστήμην οὖσαν τοῦ οἰκοδομεῖν, τί φημι ἔργον ἀπεργάζεσθαι, εἴποιμ’ ἂν ὅτι οἰκήσεισ· (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 255:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἵνα ὄψιν ἔχωσιν ὁρῶσι τὰ ζῷα ἀλλ’ ὅπωσ ὁρῶσιν ὄψιν ἔχουσιν, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ οἰκοδομικὴν ἵνα οἰκοδομῶσι καὶ τὴν θεωρητικὴν ἵνα θεωρῶσιν· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 9 92:1)
  • 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)
  • ἀλλ̓ οἱ μέν τινεσ περὶ γεωργίαν πραγματεύονται, οἱ δὲ περὶ ἐμπορίαν, οἱ δ̓ ἐπὶ στρατείαν ὁρμῶσιν, οἱ δ̓ ἐπ̓ ἰατρικήν, οἱ δὲ οἰκοδομικὴν ἢ ναυπηγικὴν ἐκμανθάνουσιν, οἱ δὲ κιθαρίζειν ἢ αὐλεῖν ἢ σκυτοτομεῖν ἢ παλαίειν, οἱ δὲ ὅπωσ δεινοὶ δόξουσι περὶ τὸ εἰπεῖν ἐν δήμῳ ἢ δικαστηρίῳ τὴν πᾶσαν σπουδὴν ἔχουσιν, οἱ δὲ ὅπωσ ἰσχυροὶ ἔσονται τὰ σώματα. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 4:2)

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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