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παρασκευαστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρασκευαστικός παρασκευαστική παρασκευαστικόν

Structure: παρασκευαστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from paraskeua/zw

Sense

  1. skilled in providing

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

  • Ποντιανὸσ δὲ Ζήνωνα ἔφη τὸν Κιτιέα ὑπολαμβάνειν τὸν Ἔρωτα θεὸν εἶναι φιλίασ καὶ ὁμονοίασ,5 ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἐλευθερίασ παρασκευαστικόν, ἄλλου δὲ οὐδενόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 121)
  • καὶ γὰρ παρασκευαστικὸν τῶν εἰσ τὸν πόλεμον τὸν στρατηγὸν εἶναι χρή, καὶ ποριστικὸν τῶν ἐπιτηδείων τοῖσ στρατιώταισ, καὶ μηχανικὸν καὶ ἐργαστικὸν καὶ ἐπιμελῆ καὶ καρτερικὸν καὶ ἀγχίνουν, καὶ φιλόφρονά τε καὶ ὠμόν, καὶ ἁπλοῦν τε καὶ ἐπίβουλον, καὶ φυλακτικόν τε καὶ κλέπτην, καὶ προετικὸν καὶ ἁρ́παγα καὶ φιλόδωρον καὶ πλεονέκτην καὶ ἀσφαλῆ καὶ ἐπιθετικόν, καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ καὶ φύσει καὶ ἐπιστήμῃ δεῖ τὸν εὖ στρατηγήσοντα ἔχειν. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. skilled in providing

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

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