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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

  • γιγνώσκει γὰρ δὴ τὸ μὲν ὑγιεινὸν τῇ ἰατρικῇ ἀλλ’ οὐ σωφροσύνῃ, τὸ δ’ ἁρμονικὸν μουσικῇ ἀλλ’ οὐ σωφροσύνῃ, τὸ δ’ οἰκοδομικὸν οἰκοδομικῇ ἀλλ’ οὐ σωφροσύνῃ, καὶ οὕτω πάντα· (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 365:1)
  • σωφροσύνῃ δέ, εἴπερ μόνον ἐστὶν ἐπιστημῶν ἐπιστήμη, πῶσ εἴσεται ὅτι τὸ ὑγιεινὸν γιγνώσκει ἢ ὅτι τὸ οἰκοδομικόν; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 367:1)
  • δῆλον δ’ ἐπὶ τῶν καθ’ ἕκαστα τῇ ἐπαγωγῇ ὃ βουλόμεθα λέγειν, καὶ οὐ δεῖ παντὸσ ὁρ́ον ζητεῖν ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἀνάλογον συνορᾶν, ὅτι ὡσ τὸ οἰκοδομοῦν πρὸσ τὸ οἰκοδομικόν, καὶ τὸ ἐγρηγορὸσ πρὸσ τὸ καθεῦδον, καὶ τὸ ὁρῶν πρὸσ τὸ μῦον μὲν ὄψιν δὲ ἔχον, καὶ τὸ ἀποκεκριμένον ἐκ τῆσ ὕλησ πρὸσ τὴν ὕλην, καὶ τὸ ἀπειργασμένον πρὸσ τὸ ἀνέργαστον. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 9 57:2)
  • τῷ λόγῳ μὲν οὖν ὅτι προτέρα, δῆλον τῷ γὰρ ἐνδέχεσθαι ἐνεργῆσαι δυνατόν ἐστι τὸ πρώτωσ δυνατόν, οἱο͂ν λέγω οἰκοδομικὸν τὸ δυνάμενον οἰκοδομεῖν, καὶ ὁρατικὸν τὸ ὁρᾶν, καὶ ὁρατὸν τὸ δυνατὸν ὁρᾶσθαι· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 9 83:3)

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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