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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

  • οὕτωσ δ’ ἔχων ὀλίγου μὲν ἀπέκτεινε τὴν γυναῖκα, νικώμενοσ δὲ τῷ πρὸσ αὐτὴν ἔρωτι ταύτησ μὲν τῆσ ὁρμῆσ ἐκράτησεν ἑαυτοῦ διακαρτερήσασ ὀδυνηρῶσ καὶ δυσχερῶσ, τὸν μέντοι Ιὤσηπον οὐδ’ εἰσ ὄψιν ἐλθόντα διαχρήσασθαι προσέταξεν καὶ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδραν ὡσ ἁπάντων παραιτίαν δήσασ ἐφύλαττεν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 108:2)

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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