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πειστέος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: peisteos

Principal Part: πειστέος πειστέον

Structure: πειστε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: πείθω의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must persuade
  2. one must obey

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

  • πλὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτο ὡς νομοθέτῃ πειστέον σοι, καὶ ἀντερῶ ἢν τί μοι δοκῇ μὴ ὀρθῶς λέγεσθαι, ὡς βεβαιότερον μάθοιμι. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 18:3)
  • τοῖς γὰρ νόμοις τοῖς ἡμετέροισι πειστέον. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 2 2:10)
  • ἐξαπατώμεθα νὴ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν, νὴ Δί, οὐχὶ πειστέον: (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests 2:13)
  • ἀλλ εὖ γὰρ εἶπας, πειστέον: (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 6:15)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀλλὰ πειστέον: (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene36)

Synonyms

  1. one must persuade

  2. one must obey

Related

형용사

동사

부사

Similar forms

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

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