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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

  • Πλάτων αἰτίαν ἐν προαιρετικοῖσ κατὰ συμβεβηκὸσ καὶ παρακολούθημα. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, 2:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἂν ἐνταῦθά που θῶ τὸ ἀγαθόν, ἐν τοῖσ προαιρετικοῖσ, πάντεσ μου καταγελάσονται. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 18:2)
  • ἐν τοῖσ προαιρετικοῖσ. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 9:4)
  • καὶ οὕτωσ τὸ παράδοξον ἐκεῖνο οὐκέτι οὔτ’ ἀδύνατον φανεῖται οὔτε παράδοξον, ὅτι ἅμα μὲν εὐλαβεῖσθαι δεῖ ἅμα δὲ θαρρεῖν, πρὸσ μὲν τὰ ἀπροαίρετα θαρρεῖν, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ προαιρετικοῖσ εὐλαβεῖσθαι. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 40:1)
  • καὶ πρὸσ τοῦτο δὲ τὸ πρόσωπον ὀφείλεται παραχώρησισ, εὐπείθεια, εὐφημία, μηδέποτ’ ἀντιποιήσασθαί τινοσ πρὸσ [ἑ]αὐτὸν τῶν ἀπροαιρέτων, ἀλλ’ ἡδέωσ ἐκεῖνα προίεσθαι, ἵν’ ἐν τοῖσ προαιρετικοῖσ πλέον ἔχῃσ. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 8:1)

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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