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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

  • Ὁ προκόπτων μεμαθηκὼσ παρὰ τῶν φιλοσόφων ὅτι ἡ μὲν ὄρεξισ ἀγαθῶν ἐστιν, ἡ δ’ ἔκκλισισ πρὸσ κακά, μεμαθηκὼσ δὲ καὶ ὅτι οὐκ ἄλλωσ τὸ εὔρουν καὶ ἀπαθὲσ περιγίνεται τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἢ ἐν ὀρέξει μὲν μὴ ἀποτυγχάνοντι, ἐν ἐκκλίσει δὲ μὴ περιπίπτοντι, τὴν μὲν ὄρεξιν ἦρκεν ἐξ αὑτοῦ εἰσάπαν καὶ ὑπερτέθειται, τῇ ἐκκλίσει δὲ πρὸσ μόνα χρῆται τὰ προαιρετικά. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 1:1)
  • τοῦτ’ ἔστι τὸ τιμᾶν ἄλλο τι ἢ τὰ προαιρετικά. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 23:1)
  • ἐφ’ ἡμῖν μὲν προαίρεσισ καὶ πάντα τὰ προαιρετικὰ ἔργα, οὐκ ἐφ’ ἡμῖν δὲ τὸ σῶμα, τὰ μέρη τοῦ σώματοσ, κτήσεισ, γονεῖσ, ἀδελφοὶ, τέκνα, πατρίσ, ἁπλῶσ οἱ κοινωνοί. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 10:1)
  • τί παράδοξον ἀξιοῦσιν οἱ φιλόσοφοι, εἰ λέγουσιν "ὅπου μὲν τὰ ἀπροαίρετα, ἐκεῖ τὸ θάρσοσ ἔστω σοι, ὅπου δὲ τὰ προαιρετικά, ἐκεῖ ἡ εὐλάβεια" 3; (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 5:1)
  • ‐ Εἰ οὖν τὰ μὲν ἀπροαίρετα οὔτ’ ἀγαθὰ οὔτε κακά, τὰ προαιρετικὰ δὲ πάντα ἐφ’ ἡμῖν καὶ οὔτ’ ἀφελέσθαι τισ ἡμῶν αὐτὰ δύναται οὔτε περιποιῆσαι ἃ οὐ θέλομεν αὐτῶν, ποῦ ἔτι τόποσ ἀγωνίασ; (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 10:2)

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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