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συγγραφικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: συγγραφικός συγγραφική συγγραφικόν

Structure: συγγραφικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from suggrafh/

Sense

  1. given to writing, in prose, like a book

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

  • ἢν δὲ ποιητικὸσ αὐτὸσ ἢ συγγραφικὸσ ὁ πλούσιοσ ᾖ, παρὰ τὸ δεῖπνον τὰ αὑτοῦ ῥαψῳδῶν, τότε καὶ μάλιστα διαρραγῆναι χρὴ ἐπαινοῦντα καὶ κολακεύοντα καὶ τρόπουσ ἐπαίνων καινοτέρουσ ἐπινοοῦντα. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 35:5)
  • πλεῖστον δὲ διαφέρει πρὸσ τὸ εἶδοσ τῶν λόγων ἑκατέρου ἡ διαφορὰ τῶν πραγμάτων, οἱο͂ν οἱ πολιτικοὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐνδόξων καὶ γνωρίμων πραγμάτων ἢ προσώπων οὐ διαποροῦσιν, ὁ δὲ συγγραφικὸσ διαπορῶν καὶ ἐπιδιστάζων καὶ τοῖσ ἐνδόξοισ ἀφέλειαν ἐργάζεται. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. given to writing

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

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