Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πιστευτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πιστευτικός πιστευτική πιστευτικόν

Structure: πιστευτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from pisteu/w

Sense

  1. disposed to trust, confiding, to rely upon
  2. creating belief

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

  • καὶ τοὺσ μὴ εὐλαβεῖσ μηδὲ φυλακτικοὺσ ἀλλὰ πιστευτικούσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 12 19:1)
  • ἡ ῥητορικὴ ἄρα, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, πειθοῦσ δημιουργόσ ἐστιν πιστευτικῆσ ἀλλ’ οὐ διδασκαλικῆσ περὶ τὸ δίκαιόν τε καὶ ἄδικον. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 47:8)

Synonyms

  1. disposed to trust

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

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