Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • οὐ τὸ σῶμα δήπου πλάττοντεσ ἡμῶν, οὐδὲ τὰσ χεῖρασ, ὡσ δεῖ, μετατιθέντεσ αὐτοὶ καὶ τοὺσ πόδασ, ἀλλὰ τῆσ ψυχῆσ τὸ πρακτικὸν καὶ προαιρετικὸν ἀρχαῖσ τισι καὶ φαντασίαισ καὶ ἐπινοίαισ ἐγείροντεσ ἢ τοὐναντίον ἀποστρέφοντεσ καὶ ἱστάντεσ. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 32 7:2)
  • "ἀλλὰ θαυμάζω, πῶσ ἔλαθον ὑμᾶσ οὐδὲν ἄλλο τῶν ῥευμάτων τούτων ἢ τὸ ἔμψυχον ἀφελὼν καὶ προαιρετικὸν ἵνα μή με δόξητε πόρρω νυκτῶν ὑμῖν ἐπάγοντα φάσματα καὶ εἴδωλα πεπνυμένα καὶ φρονοῦντα μορμολύττεσθαι καὶ διαταράττειν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 13:1)
  • ὁρᾷσ ὅτι ἐν τούτῳ τῷ τόπῳ τὸ προαιρετικὸν ἔχεισ ἀκώλυτον ἀνανάγκαστον ἀπαραπόδιστον; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 23:2)
  • ἀπροαίρετον ἢ προαιρετικόν; (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 14:5)
  • ἀπροαίρετον ἢ προαιρετικόν; (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 15:9)

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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