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πηλίκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πηλίκος πηλίκη πηλίκον

Structure: πηλικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: interrog. of thli/kos, h(li/kos

Sense

  1. how great or large?
  2. of what age, of a certain age

Examples

  • συμβαίνει δὲ τοῦτο τὰ μὲν ἑκόντων τὰ δὲ ἀκόντων τῶν νομοθετῶν, ἀκόντων μὲν ὅταν λάθῃ, ἑκόντων δ’ ὅταν μὴ δύνωνται διορίσαι, ἀλλ’ ἀναγκαῖον μὲν ᾖ καθόλου εἰπεῖν, μὴ ᾖ δέ, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πολύ, καὶ ὅσα μὴ ῥᾴδιον διορίσαι δι’ ἀπειρίαν, οἱο͂ν τὸ τρῶσαι σιδήρῳ πηλίκῳ καὶ ποίῳ τινί· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 13 13:2)

Synonyms

  1. how great or large?

Related

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

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