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παραίτιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραίτιος

Structure: παραιτι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. being in part the cause

Examples

  • Δίφιλοσ δέ φησι τῶν μήλων τὰ χλωρὰ καὶ μηδέπω πέπονα κακόχυλα εἶναι καὶ κακοστόμαχα ἐπιπολαστικά τε καὶ χολῆσ γεννητικὰ νοσοποιά τε καὶ φρίκησ παραίτια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 203)
  • ἡ Μοῖρα τούτων, ὦ τέκνον, παραιτία. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode, anapests 3:9)

Synonyms

  1. being in part the cause

Related

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

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