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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

  • οὐκοῦν καὶ παράσιτοσ ὑπὸ τῆσ παρασιτικῆσ, εἴπερ ἦν ἀτεχνία, οὐκ ἂν ἐσώζετο; (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 8:10)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνο, ὅπωσ καὶ ὁρ́ον ἡμῖν τινα γενναῖον ἀποδῷσ τῆσ παρασιτικῆσ. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 9:2)
  • ὑπέρευγέ μοι δοκεῖσ ὁρίσασθαι τὴν σεαυτοῦ τέχνην ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνο σκόπει, μὴ πρὸσ ἐνίουσ τῶν φιλοσόφων μάχη σοι περὶ τοῦ τέλουσ ᾖ καὶ μὴν ἀπόχρη γε εἴπερ ἔσται τὸ αὐτὸ τέλοσ εὐδαιμονίασ καὶ παρασιτικῆσ. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 9:6)
  • ὅ γε μὴν Ἐπίκουροσ σφόδρα ἀναισχύντωσ ὑφελόμενοσ τὸ τῆσ παρασιτικῆσ τέλοσ τῆσ καθ’ αὑτὸν εὐδαιμονίασ τέλοσ αὐτὸ ποιεῖ. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 11:1)
  • ἄλλων τεχνῶν εἰσι διδάσκαλοί τινεσ, τῆσ δὲ παρασιτικῆσ οὐδείσ, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἡ ποιητικὴ κατὰ Σωκράτη καὶ αὕτη τινὶ θείᾳ μοίρᾳ παραγίγνεται. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 19:1)

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

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