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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

  • καὶ αὐτῶν γε τούτων ἀναστρέφων τὰσ χρήσεισ, ἵνα τὸ μὲν ὀνοματικὸν προσηγορικὸν γένηται, τὸ δὲ προσηγορικὸν ὀνοματικῶσ λέγηται, καὶ τὰ μὲν παθητικὰ ῥήματα δραστήρια, τὰ δὲ δραστήρια παθητικά· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 2 2:2)
  • 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 τῶν ῥημάτων ἀλλάττῃ τὰ εἴδη τῶν παθητικῶν καὶ ποιητικῶν, οὕτω σχηματίζει τὸν λόγον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 71)
  • τὸ γὰρ κωλύει ῥῆμα ἐνεργητικὸν ὑπάρχον ἀντὶ τοῦ κωλύεται παθητικοῦ ὄντοσ παρείληπται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 7 1:2)
  • ὁ παθητικὸσ πέπλημαι, καὶ παρὰ Σημωνίδῃ πεπλήαται· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 191)

Synonyms

  1. passive

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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