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πλεονεκτικός?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: pleonektikos

Principal Part: πλεονεκτικός πλεονεκτική πλεονεκτικόν

Structure: πλεονεκτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. disposed to take too much, greedy

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

  • ἀδικία δ ἐστὶ κακία ψυχῆς, καθ ἣν πλεονεκτικοὶ γίνονται παρὰ τὴν ἀξίαν. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 13:1)
  • τίς γὰρ οὐκ ἂν ὁμολογήσειε τὴν μὲν ἰσότητα ἐν ἅπαντι καὶ τὸ μηδὲν πλέον δικαιοσύνης ἔργα εἶναι, τὸ δὲ ἄνισόν τε καὶ πλεονεκτικὸν ἀδικίας· (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 8:2)
  • "οὐ γὰρ ἀμύνεται τὸν ἀδικήσαντα κακῶς παθὼν οὐδ ὀργίζεται τῷ ἁρπάσαντι βιασθεὶς οὐδὲ μισεῖ τὸν μοιχὸν ὑβρισθείς, ἀλλ ἰατρείας ἕνεκα τὸν μοιχικὸν καὶ τὸν πλεονεκτικὸν καὶ ἀδικητικὸν κολάζει πολλάκις, ὥσπερ ἐπιληψίαν τὴν κακίαν πρὶν ἢ καταλαβεῖν ἀναιρῶν. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 208)
  • κερδαλέος δὲ ὁ πανταχόθεν πλεονεκτικός, ζημιώδης δὲ ὁ μηδαμόθεν, ἀλλ ὀλιγαχόθεν: (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 59:1)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν πανοῦργος πάντως καὶ πάντοθεν πλεονεκτικός, ὁ δ εὐήθης οὐδ ὅθεν δεῖ: (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 62:1)

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

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