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προτρεπτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προτρεπτικός προτρεπτική προτρεπτικόν

Structure: προτρεπτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from protre/pw

Sense

  1. persuasive, in oratory, persuasively

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

  • "ὁ γὰρ τοιοῦτοσ λόγοσ καὶ ἑαυτῷ μάχεται καὶ ἥκιστ’ ἐστὶ προτρεπτικόσ. (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 14 2:1)
  • Περὶ Δικαιοσύνησ καὶ Ἀνδρείασ, Προτρεπτικὸσ πρῶτοσ, δεύτεροσ, τρίτοσ, Περὶ Θεόγνιδοσ δ́ έ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section65)
  • δεινὸσ οὖν ἐν λόγῳ, ὁ δ’ αὐτὸσ καὶ προτρεπτικὸσ καὶ ἐλεγκτικὸσ οὗτοσ ὁ δυνάμενοσ ἑκάστῳ παραδεῖξαι τὴν μάχην, καθ’ ἣν ἁμαρτάνει, καὶ σαφῶσ παραστῆσαι, πῶσ ὃ θέλει οὐ ποιεῖ καὶ ὃ μὴ θέλει ποιεῖ. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 4:1)
  • οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ προτρεπτικὸσ χαρακτήρ; (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 33:1)
  • τίσ γάρ ἐστιν ὁ προτρεπτικόσ; (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 34:1)

Synonyms

  1. persuasive

Related

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

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