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παρρησιαστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρρησιαστικός παρρησιαστική παρρησιαστικόν

Structure: παρρησιαστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from parrhsia/zomai

Sense

  1. freespoken

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

  • ὁ δ’ ἢν μὲν ἔχῃ τι γενναῖον καὶ ἐλεύθερον καὶ παρρησιαστικόν, εὐθὺσ ἐξέρρηξε τὴν ὀργὴν καὶ τὸν θυμὸν ἐξέχεε, καὶ τέλοσ τὴν ἀπολογίαν προσιέμενοσ ἔγνω μάτην κατὰ τοῦ φίλου παρωξυμμένοσ. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 23:2)
  • καὶ τῶν ἠδικημένων καὶ ἐχθρῶν ἢ ἀντιπάλων οὐχ οἱ ὀξύθυμοι καὶ παρρησιαστικοί, ἀλλὰ οἱ πρᾶοι καὶ εἴρωνεσ καὶ πανοῦργοι· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 5 11:3)
  • διὰ δὴ οὖν τὸ παρρησιαστικὸν τοῦτο μικροῦ καὶ ἐκινδύνευσεν ἐν Κύπρῳ παρὰ Νικοκρέοντι σὺν Ἀσκληπιάδῃ τῷ φίλῳ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. iz'. MENEDHMOS 4:4)

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

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