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παρακινδυνευτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρακινδυνευτικός παρακινδυνευτική παρακινδυνευτικόν

Structure: παρακινδυνευτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from parakinduneu/w

Sense

  1. venturesome, audacious

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

  • βούλομαι τοίνυν καὶ παρακινδυνευτικοῦ τινοσ ἅψασθαι λόγου καὶ διαλεχθῆναι τοῖσ διὰ ταῦτα φιλοῦσιν αὐτόν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 51:1)
  • φέρε δή, τίνα ἀρχήν τισ ἂν ἄρξαιτο παρακινδυνευτικοῦ λόγου; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 157:3)
  • λείαν δέ τινα ὑπὸ Νομάδων ἀγομένην Μάρκελλοσ ἰδών, καὶ δόξασ ὀλίγουσ εἶναι τοὺσ ἄγοντασ, ἐπέδραμεν αὐτοῖσ μετὰ τριακοσίων ἱππέων σὺν καταφρονήσει, καὶ πρῶτοσ ἡγεῖτο, θυμικὸσ ὢν ἐσ μάχασ καὶ παρακινδυνευτικὸσ ἀεί. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 8 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. venturesome

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

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