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θηρευτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θηρευτικός θηρευτική θηρευτικόν

Structure: θηρευτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from qhreu/w

Sense

  1. of or for hunting, hounds, of hunters

Examples

  • ἐπειδὰν δὲ χειρώσωνται τοῦτο ὃ ἂν θηρεύωνται, οὐ δύνανται τούτῳ χρῆσθαι, ἀλλ’ οἱ μὲν κυνηγέται καὶ οἱ ἁλιῆσ τοῖσ ὀψοποιοῖσ παραδιδόασιν, οἱ δ’ αὖ γεωμέτραι καὶ οἱ ἀστρονόμοι καὶ οἱ λογιστικοί ‐ θηρευτικοὶ γάρ εἰσι καὶ οὗτοι· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 221:2)
  • Θηρευτικοὶ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ καὶ οἱ κύνεσ αὐτῶν εἰσ ὑπερβολήν, οὐ τέχνῃ μᾶλλον ἢ σπουδῇ τῇ περὶ τοῦτο. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 4 7:8)
  • περιοικοῦσι δὲ θηρευτικοὶ ἄνδρεσ τῶν χερσαίων ἀγρευμάτων. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 35:19)
  • οἰκοῦσι δ’ οἱ μὲν νομάδεσ οἱ δὲ θηρευτικοὶ οἱ δὲ γεωργοί· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 2 3:10)

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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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