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προαιρετός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προαιρετός προαιρετή προαιρετόν

Structure: προαιρετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from proaire/omai

Sense

  1. deliberately chosen, purposed

Examples

  • διστάσειε γὰρ ἄν τισ ἐν τῷ γένει πέφυκε καὶ ἐν ποίῳ θεῖναι αὐτὴν χρή, καὶ πότερον οὐ ταὐτὸν τὸ ἑκούσιον καὶ τὸ προαιρετὸν ἢ ταὐτὸν ἐστίν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 162:3)
  • ὥστε τοῦτο μὲν φανερόν, ὅτι ἀνάγκη τὸ προαιρετὸν τῶν ἐφ’ αὑτῷ τι εἶναι. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 166:1)
  • τῶν γὰρ ἐφ’ αὑτῷ τι ἦν τὸ προαιρετόν, δοξάζομεν δὲ πολλὰ καὶ τῶν οὐκ ὄντων ἐφ’ ἡμῖν, οἱο͂ν τὴν διάμετρον σύμμετρον. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 168:2)
  • , τὰ δὲ προαιρετὰ καὶ πρακτὰ τῶν ἐφ’ ἡμῖν ὄντων ἐστίν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 175:3)
  • ὥστ’ ἐπεὶ τὸ μὲν ἐφ’ αὑτῷ ὂν ἢ πράττειν ἢ μὴ πράττειν, ἐάν τισ πράττῃ ἢ ἀπρακτῇ δι’ αὑτὸν καὶ μὴ δι’ ἄγνοιαν, ἑκὼν πράττει ἢ ἀπρακτεῖ, πολλὰ δὲ τῶν τοιούτων πράττομεν οὐ βουλευσάμενοι οὐδὲ προνοήσαντεσ, ἀνάγκη τὸ μὲν προαιρετὸν ἅπαν ἑκούσιον εἶναι, τὸ δ’ ἑκούσιον μὴ προαιρετόν, καὶ τὰ μὲν κατὰ προαίρεσιν πάντα ἑκούσια εἶναι, τὰ δ’ ἀκούσια μὴ πάντα κατὰ προαίρεσιν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 185:2)

Synonyms

  1. deliberately chosen

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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