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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

  • ὁ δ̓ οὖν Θουκυδίδησ εὖ μάλα τοῦτ̓ ἐνομοθέτησε καὶ διέκρινεν ἀρετὴν καὶ κακίαν συγγραφικήν, ὁρῶν μάλιστα θαυμαζόμενον τὸν Ἡρόδοτον, ἄχρι τοῦ καὶ Μούσασ κληθῆναι αὐτοῦ τὰ βιβλία· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 421)
  • τὸ γὰρ τῶν ἐκκεκαθαρμένων ὄνομα τροπὴν ἔχον ἀπὸ σκευῶν ἢ ἀγγείων, μετενεχθὲν ἀπὸ τῶν κοινοτέρων ἐπὶ τὰ σεμνότερα, ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν τὴν τῶν ἀνδρῶν οὐ καθαρὰν τὴν τροπὴν πεποίηκεν, ἀλλὰ πεφυλαγμένην καὶ συγγραφικήν. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 28:2)

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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