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σχολαστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σχολαστικός σχολαστική σχολαστικόν

Structure: σχολαστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sxola/zw

Sense

  1. enjoying leisure, leisure
  2. devoting one's leisure to learning, a scholar, a pedant, simpleton

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

  • τίσ οὖν μᾶλλον ἐν τῷ σχολαστικῷ βίῳ τούτῳ κατεγήρασεν ἢ Χρύσιπποσ καὶ Κλεάνθησ καὶ Διογένησ καὶ Ζήνων καὶ Ἀντίπατροσ, οἵ γε καὶ τὰσ αὑτῶν κατέλιπον πατρίδασ, οὐδὲν ἐγκαλοῦντεσ ἀλλ’ ὅπωσ καθ’ ἡσυχίαν ἐν τῷ Ωἰδείῳ καὶ ἐπὶ Ζωστῆροσ σχολάζοντεσ καὶ φιλολογοῦντεσ διάγωσιν; (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 2 7:1)

Related

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

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