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συγγνωμονικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: συγγνωμονικός συγγνωμονική συγγνωμονικόν

Structure: συγγνωμονικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from suggnw/mwn

Sense

  1. inclined to pardon, indulgent
  2. pardonable

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

  • ἔστι δὲ ἀρετῆσ καὶ τὸ εὐεργετεῖν τοὺσ ἀξίουσ, καὶ τὸ φιλεῖν τοὺσ ἀγαθούσ, καὶ τὸ μήτε κολαστικὸν εἶναι μήτε τιμωρητικόν, ἀλλὰ ἵλεων καὶ εὐμενικὸν καὶ συγγνωμονικόν. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 45:1)
  • τὸν γὰρ ἐπιεικῆ μάλιστά φαμεν εἶναι συγγνωμονικόν, καὶ ἐπιεικὲσ τὸ ἔχειν περὶ ἔνια συγγνώμην. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 79:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ εἴ τισ ἰσχυρῶν καὶ ὑπερβαλλουσῶν ἡδονῶν ἡττᾶται ἢ λυπῶν, θαυμαστόν, ἀλλὰ συγγνωμονικὸν εἰ ἀντιτείνων, ὥσπερ ὁ Θεοδέκτου Φιλοκτήτησ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἔχεωσ πεπληγμένοσ ἢ ὁ Καρκίνου ἐν τῇ Ἀλόπῃ Κερκύων, καὶ ὥσπερ οἱ κατέχειν πειρώμενοι τὸν γέλωτα ἀθρόον ἐκκαγχάζουσιν, οἱο͂ν συνέπεσε Ξενοφάντῳ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 96:1)

Synonyms

  1. inclined to pardon

  2. pardonable

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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