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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

  • μὲν γὰρ πολιτικὸσ τῶν καλῶν ἐστι πράξεων προαιρετικὸσ αὐτῶν χάριν, οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ χρημάτων καὶ πλεονεξίασ ἕνεκεν ἅπτονται τοῦ ζῆν οὕτωσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 52:1)
  • ὁ δὴ ἐν μεγάλῃ δαπάνῃ τοῦ πρέποντοσ μεγέθουσ προαιρετικόσ, καὶ τῆσ τοιαύτησ μεσότητοσ καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ τοιαύτῃ ἡδονῇ ὀρεκτικόσ, μεγαλοπρεπήσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 117:4)
  • ὁ γὰρ τῶν τοιούτων προαιρετικὸσ καὶ πρακτικόσ, καὶ ὁ μὴ ἀκριβοδίκαιοσ ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον ἀλλ’ ἐλαττωτικόσ, καίπερ ἔχων τὸν νόμον βοηθόν, ἐπιεικήσ ἐστι, καὶ ἡ ἕξισ αὕτη ἐπιείκεια, δικαιοσύνη τισ οὖσα καὶ οὐχ ἑτέρα τισ ἕξισ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 148:1)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν οὕτω λέγεται ψευδῆ, ἄνθρωποσ δὲ ψευδὴσ ὁ εὐχερὴσ καὶ προαιρετικὸσ τῶν τοιούτων λόγων, μὴ δι’ ἕτερόν τι ἀλλὰ δι’ αὐτό, καὶ ὁ ἄλλοισ ἐμποιητικὸσ τῶν τοιούτων λόγων, ὥσπερ καὶ τὰ πράγματά φαμεν ψευδῆ εἶναι ὅσα ἐμποιεῖ φαντασίαν ψευδῆ. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 264:1)

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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