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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

  • χαμαιλέων γοῦν ὁ Ἡρακλεώτησ ἐν τῷ ἐπιγραφομένῳ Προτρεπτικῷ Λακεδαιμονίουσ φησὶ καὶ Θηβαίουσ πάντασ αὐλεῖν μανθάνειν Ἡρακλεώτασ τε τοὺσ ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ καθ’ ἑαυτὸν ἔτι Ἀθηναίων τε τοὺσ ἐπιφανεστάτουσ, Καλλίαν τε τὸν Ἱππονίκου καὶ Κριτίαν τὸν Καλλαίσχρου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 84 1:4)
  • καὶ ἐν Προτρεπτικῷ δέ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 74 1:7)
  • "ὁ γὰρ τοιοῦτοσ λόγοσ καὶ ἑαυτῷ μάχεται καὶ ἥκιστ’ ἐστὶ προτρεπτικόσ. (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 14 2:1)
  • προτρεπτικόν τινα καὶ παρορμητικὸν ὄντα σύμβουλον ἢ δημαγωγὸν οὕτωσ ὠνομάσθαι φατέον, οὐκ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἀρᾶσ καὶ εὐχῆσ ὡσ ἔνιοι λέγουσι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 46 5:1)
  • 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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