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παθητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παθητικός παθητική παθητικόν

Structure: παθητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: paqei=n

Sense

  1. Subject to feeling or passion: sensitive
  2. Full of feeling: passionate, sensuous
  3. pathetic
  4. passive, receptive
  5. (grammar) passive

Examples

  • χρώματα δὲ αὐτῆσ τό τε στριφνὸν καὶ τὸ πικρὸν καὶ τὸ πυκνὸν καὶ τὸ αὐστηρὸν καὶ τὸ ἐμβριθὲσ καὶ τὸ δεινὸν καὶ φοβερόν, ὑπὲρ ἅπαντα δὲ αὐτοῦ ταῦτα τὸ παθητικόν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 2 4:1)
  • ὅταν δὲ ἀντὶ τοῦ ποιητικοῦ τὸ παθητικὸν παραλαμβάνῃ, τοῦτον σχηματίζει τὸν τρόπον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 81)
  • ἡμῶν δὲ ὅσοι μὲν Ἀθηναίοισ συνήλλαξαν, παρείληφεν δὲ τὸ ἐνηλλάγησαν παθητικὸν ὑπάρχον ἀντὶ ποιητικοῦ τοῦ συνήλλαξαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 84)
  • ἀντὶ γὰρ τοῦ ποιητικοῦ ῥήματοσ τοῦ κατῳκηκότασ τὸ παθητικὸν παρείληφεν τὸ κατῳκημένουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 87)
  • τούτου δὲ αἴτιον, ὅτι πολὺ τὸ παθητικὸν ἐν ἐκείνοισ εἶναι δεῖ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 2 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. passive

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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