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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

  • λέγει τισ μηδεμίαν εἶναι χρείαν ἢ προαγωγὴν τῆσ προαιρετικῆσ δυνάμεωσ; (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 23:3)
  • ἔστι τισ ἀξία καὶ τῆσ φραστικῆσ δυνάμεωσ, ἀλλ’ οὐχ ἡλίκη τῆσ προαιρετικῆσ. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 25:2)

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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