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ῥᾴδιος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: rhāidios

Principal Part: ῥᾴδιος ῥᾴδια ῥᾴδιον

Structure: ῥᾳδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. easy, easy to understand, easy to do
  2. easygoing, adaptable, reckless, unscrupulous
  3. better (i.e. get better from sickness)

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

  • τὸ γὰρ ἐκ παντὸς εἰς ἐλάχιστον συναχθὲν ῥᾴδιον ἐξ ὀλίγου μηδὲ εἶναι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, chapter 3 1:3)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐθέλει ἀφίστασθαι ῥᾳδίως, ἀλλ ἔνθα ἂν ἀπερείσῃ τὸ πρῶτον, τούτου ἔχεται καὶ τὸ παρὸν ἐπαινεῖ: (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 8:1)
  • ἐρωτικὸς δὲ ὢν καὶ εἰς τὰ ἀφροδίσια ἐκκεχυμένος ^ ῥᾳδίως ἐνέπλησε παίδων τὸν οὐρανόν, . (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 5:4)
  • ἔπειτα δὲ ὡς ἄδικος ὁ τοιοῦτος καὶ παράνομός ἐστι καὶ ἀσεβὴς καὶ τοῖς χρωμένοις ἐπιζήμιος, ῥᾴδιον καταμαθεῖν. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 8:1)
  • τοιγαροῦν πολλῶν κακῶν ὁ βίος ἐπλήσθη ὑπὸ τῶν οὕτω ῥᾳδίως καὶ ἀνεξετάστως πεπιστευμένων διαβολῶν. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 26:1)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ κατήγορος καὶ σιωπῶν ἀξιόπιστος, σὺ δὲ Ἕλλην καὶ ῥᾴδιος τὸν τρόπον καὶ πρὸς πᾶσαν ἀδικίαν εὔκολος. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 40:3)
  • οὐ γὰρ πρὸς τοῦ σοῦ τρόπου τὸ τοιοῦτον, ὃς οὐδὲ ἄλλως ῥᾴδιος πρὸς τοὺς ἐπαίνους καὶ πρόχειρος ὢν ἐτύγχανες: (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 14:2)
  • ὡς οὐδὲν ᾔδει πλὴν χελιδόνας γράφειν, ἀλλ ἦν ἄπειρος τῶν τρόπων τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ, ἐστὶν γὰρ οὔτε κοῦφος οὔτε ῥᾴδιος ἀπαλλαγῆναι τῷ φέροντι τὴν νόσον, βαρὺς δὲ κομιδῇ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 13 2:4)
  • πολλοὶ δὲ τὸν ἔλλοπα, σπάνιος γάρ ἐστι καὶ οὐ ῥᾴδιος ἁλῶναι. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 32 5:3)
  • οὐ γὰρ οὕτως εὐχερὴς ἦν οὐδὲ ῥᾴδιος ὑπ ὀργῆς ἐκπεσεῖν τῶν λογισμῶν Γάϊος Καῖσαρ ὥστε, εἰ μὴ ταῦτα πάλαι ἔγνωστο πράττειν, οὕτως ἂν ἐπὶ καιροῦ τὸν κατὰ τῆς πατρίδος ἐξενεγκεῖν πόλεμον, ὅτι φαύλως ἠμφιεσμένον εἶδεν Ἀντώνιον καὶ Κάσσιον ἐπὶ ζεύγους μισθίου πεφευγότας πρὸς αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα πάλαι δεομένῳ προφάσεως σχῆμα καὶ λόγον εὐπρεπῆ τοῦ πολέμου παρέσχεν. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 6 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. easy

  2. easygoing

  3. better

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