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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

  • ὁμοίωσ δέ πωσ τοῦ Φωκίωνοσ καὶ ὁ λόγοσ ἦν ἐπὶ χρηστοῖσ εὐτυχήμασι καὶ διανοήμασι σωτήριοσ, προστακτικήν τινα καὶ αὐστηρὰν καὶ ἀνήδυντον ἔχων βραχυλογίαν. (Plutarch, chapter 5 2:1)
  • τῆσ δὲ τοιαύτησ ὑπολήψεωσ τὴν μέν τινα ἑκουσίαν καὶ παραμυθητικὴν φῶμεν, τὴν δὲ ἀναγκαίαν καὶ προστακτικήν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 51:1)

Related

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

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