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προσποιητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσποιητικός προσποιητική προσποιητικόν

Structure: προσποιητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. making pretence to

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

  • δοκεῖ δὲ καὶ ἀλαζὼν εἶναι ὁ θρασὺσ καὶ προσποιητικὸσ ἀνδρείασ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 99:2)
  • δοκεῖ δὴ ὁ μὲν ἀλαζὼν προσποιητικὸσ τῶν ἐνδόξων εἶναι καὶ μὴ ὑπαρχόντων καὶ μειζόνων ἢ ὑπάρχει, ὁ δὲ εἴρων ἀνάπαλιν ἀρνεῖσθαι τὰ ὑπάρχοντα ἢ ἐλάττω ποιεῖν, ὁ δὲ μέσοσ αὐθέκαστόσ τισ ὢν ἀληθευτικὸσ καὶ τῷ βίῳ καὶ τῷ λόγῳ, τὰ ὑπάρχοντα ὁμολογῶν εἶναι περὶ αὑτόν, καὶ οὔτε μείζω οὔτε ἐλάττω. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 130:1)

Similar forms

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

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