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θεωρητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεωρητικός θεωρητική θεωρητικόν

Structure: θεωρητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of contemplating, speculative

Examples

  • "καὶ κατὰ φύσιν, εἴ τι κρεῖττον ἐνταῦθα μετιόντεσ καὶ τελειότερον ἀνευρίσκουσιν, ὥσπερ οἱ θεωρητικοὶ καὶ πολιτικοὶ τῶν ἀνδρῶν. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 4 2:1)

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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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