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προαιρετικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προαιρετικός προαιρετική προαιρετικόν

Structure: προαιρετικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: proaire/omai

Sense

  1. inclined to prefer, deliberately choosing
  2. purposing, intentional

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

  • ἀνάγκη τοίνυν, ἐπειδὴ ἡ ἀρετὴ μὲν ἡ ἠθικὴ αὐτή τε μεσότησ τίσ ἐστι καὶ περὶ ἡδονὰσ καὶ λύπασ πᾶσα, ἡ δὲ κακία ἐν ὑπερβολῇ καὶ ἐλλείψει καὶ περὶ ταὐτὰ τῇ ἀρετῇ, τὴν ἀρετὴν εἶναι τὴν ἠθικὴν ἕξιν προαιρετικὴν μεσότητοσ τῆσ πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ ἐν ἡδέσι καὶ λυπηροῖσ, καθ’ ὅσα ποῖόσ τισ λέγεται τὸ ἦθοσ, ἢ χαίρων ἢ λυπούμενοσ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 202:1)
  • ἀλλὰ τὴν προαιρετικήν, ὅταν ὀρθὴ γένηται. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 27:5)

Synonyms

  1. inclined to prefer

Related

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

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