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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

  • τοῦτο δὲ ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν ἐπιστημῶν συμβαίνει τῶν θεωρητικῶν οὐθὲν γὰρ ἕτερόν ἐστι τῆσ ἀστρολογίασ οὐδὲ τῆσ περὶ φύσεωσ ἐπιστήμησ οὐδὲ γεωμετρίασ πλὴν τὸ γνωρίσαι καὶ θεωρῆσαι τὴν φύσιν τῶν πραγμάτων τῶν ὑποκειμένων ταῖσ ἐπιστήμαισ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 63:1)
  • αἱ μὲν οὖν θεωρητικαὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἐπιστημῶν αἱρετώταται, αὕτη δὲ τῶν θεωρητικῶν. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 6 16:1)
  • δῆλον τοίνυν ὅτι τρία γένη τῶν θεωρητικῶν ἐπιστημῶν ἔστι, φυσική, μαθηματική, θεολογική. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 11 111:1)
  • βέλτιστον μὲν οὖν τὸ τῶν θεωρητικῶν γένοσ, τούτων δ’ αὐτῶν ἡ τελευταία λεχθεῖσα· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 11 111:2)
  • ἢ ἐπ’ ἐνίων ἡ ἐπιστήμη τὸ πρᾶγμα, ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν ποιητικῶν ἄνευ ὕλησ ἡ οὐσία καὶ τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν θεωρητικῶν ὁ λόγοσ τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ ἡ νόησισ; (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 12 122:4)

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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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