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παρασιτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρασιτικός παρασιτική παρασιτικόν

Structure: παρασιτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from para/si_tos

Sense

  1. of a para/sitos, the trade of a para/sitos, toad-eating

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

  • φέρε δὴ καθ’ ἕκαστον τοῖσ τῆσ τέχνησ εἴδεσιν ἐφαρμόζοντεσ τὴν παρασιτικήν, εἰ συνᾴδει σκοπῶμεν ἢ ὁ περὶ αὐτῆσ λόγοσ, καθάπερ αἱ πονηραὶ χύτραι διακρουόμεναι, σαθρὸν ἀποφθέγγεται δεῖ τοίνυν πᾶσαν τέχνην σύστημα ἐκ καταλήψεων . (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 4:5)
  • παπαί, οἱο͂ν χρῆμα ἀποφαίνῃ τὴν παρασιτικήν· (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 25:3)
  • ὡμολόγηται δὴ πρὸσ πάντων τήν τε ῥητορικὴν καὶ τὴν φιλοσοφίαν, ἃσ διὰ γενναιότητα καὶ ἐπιστήμασ ἀποφαίνονταί τινεσ, ἐπειδὰν ^ καὶ τούτων ἀποδείξαιμι τὴν παρασιτικὴν πολὺ κρατοῦσαν, δῆλον ὅτι ^ τῶν ἄλλων τεχνῶν δόξει προφερεστάτη καθάπερ ἡ Ναυσικάα τῶν θεραπαινίδων. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 26:5)

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

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