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προστακτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προστακτικός προστακτική προστακτικόν

Structure: προστακτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: prostakto/s

Sense

  1. of or for commanding, imperative

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

  • γρῖφοσ πρόβλημά ἐστι παιστικόν, προστακτικὸν τοῦ διὰ ζητήσεωσ εὑρεῖν τῇ διανοίᾳ τὸ προβληθὲν τιμῆσ ἢ ἐπιζημίου χάριν εἰρημένον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 69 3:3)
  • διαφέρει δ’ ἀξίωμα καὶ ἐρώτημα καὶ πύσμα <καὶ> προστακτικὸν καὶ ὁρκικὸν καὶ ἀρατικὸν καὶ ὑποθετικὸν καὶ προσαγορευτικὸν καὶ πρᾶγμα ὅμοιον ἀξιώματι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 66:1)
  • Προστακτικὸν δέ ἐστι πρᾶγμα ὃ λέγοντεσ προστάσσομεν, οἱο͂ν, σὺ μὲν βάδιζε τὰσ ἐπ’ Ἰνάχου ῥοάσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 67:1)

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

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