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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

  • " εἰσ τοῦτον μόνον τὸν ἀγῶνα καθίησιν τὸν περὶ τῶν προαιρετικῶν· (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 7:1)
  • τῶν μὲν γὰρ προαιρετικῶν ἅτε καλῶν ὄντων καὶ παρόντων σύμμετρον ἔχεισ καὶ καθισταμένην τὴν ὄρεξιν, τῶν δ’ ἀπροαιρέτων οὐδενὸσ ὀρέγῃ, ἵνα καὶ τόπον σχῇ τὸ ἄλογον ἐκεῖνο καὶ ὠστικὸν καὶ παρὰ τὰ μέτρα ἠπειγμένον; (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 84:5)

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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