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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

  • ἡ παρασιτική. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 1:35)
  • οὐκοῦν, ὦ Σίμων, ἡ παρασιτικὴ τέχνη ἐστί; (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 2:5)
  • εἰ καὶ ταύτην ταῖσ ἄλλαισ τέχναισ ἐγκαταλέξομεν, ὥστε ἐπειδὰν πυνθάνηταί τισ, ὁποία τισ αὕτη τέχνη ἐστί, λέγειν, οἱο͂ν γραμματικὴ ἢ ^ ἰατρική, παρασιτική. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 3:4)
  • ^ εἰ δὲ μετέχοι τούτων ἁπάντων ἡ παρασιτική, τί ἂν ἄλλο ἢ καὶ αὐτὴ τέχνη εἰή; (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 4:3)
  • 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)

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

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