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ὀλιγαρχικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλιγαρχικός ὀλιγαρχική ὀλιγαρχικόν

Structure: ὀλιγαρχικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. oligarchical, of, for or like oligarchy
  2. inclined to oligarchy

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

  • ἔπειτ’ οὐδ’ ἔχουσα φαίνεται μοναρχικὸν οὐδέν, ἀλλ’ ὀλιγαρχικὰ καὶ δημοκρατικά· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 125:1)
  • οἱ δ’ ὀλιχαρχίαν διὰ τὸ πολλὰ ἔχειν ὀλιγαρχικά, οἱο͂ν τὸ πάσασ αἱρετὰσ εἶναι καὶ μηδεμίαν κληρωτήν, καὶ ὀλίγουσ εἶναι κυρίουσ θανάτου καὶ φυγῆσ, καὶ ἄλλα τοιαῦτα πολλά. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 144:1)
  • ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ὀλιγαρχικὰ σοφίσματα τῆσ νομοθεσίασ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 201:2)
  • καὶ μὴν ὀλιγαρχικὰ πολιτεύματα καὶ πλείω γέγονε, δοκοῦντα παρόμοιον ἔχειν τι τοῖσ ἀριστοκρατικοῖσ, ἃ πλεῖστον ὡσ ἔποσ εἰπεῖν διεστᾶσιν. (Polybius, Histories, book 6, ii. de variis rerum publicarum formis 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. inclined to oligarchy

Related

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

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