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ὀνομαστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀνομαστικός

Structure: ὀνομαστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. good at naming
  2. Of or concerning naming
  3. (elliptically for ὀνομαστική πτῶσις ‎(ptôsis)) the nominative case

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

  • "τῇ δὲ τὸν λαγὸν ἑνικῇ αἰτιατικῇ ἀκόλουθόσ ἐστιν ἡ παρὰ Σοφοκλεῖ ἐν Ἀμύκῳ σατυρικῷ πληθυντικὴ ὀνομαστική· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 628)
  • ἐοίκε τοίνυν οὐκ ἐάν τισ ταῦτα μιμῆται, οὐδὲ περὶ ταύτασ τὰσ μιμήσεισ ἡ τέχνη ἡ ὀνομαστικὴ εἶναι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 243:5)
  • καὶ πάλιν ἐκ τῶν ὀνομάτων καὶ ῥημάτων μέγα ἤδη τι καὶ καλὸν καὶ ὅλον συστήσομεν, ὥσπερ ἐκεῖ τὸ ζῷον τῇ γραφικῇ, ἐνταῦθα τὸν λόγον τῇ ὀνομαστικῇ ἢ ῥητορικῇ ἢ ἥτισ ἐστὶν ἡ τέχνη. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 252:1)

Synonyms

  1. good at naming

  2. Of or concerning naming

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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