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ὑπερμαχητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερμαχητικός ὑπερμαχητική ὑπερμαχητικόν

Structure: ὑπερμαχητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from u(perma/xomai

Sense

  1. inclined to fight for

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

  • οὐδὲν γάρ ἄλλο τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων οὕτωσ ἔρωτα δριμὺν εἰρήνησ ἐργάζεται καὶ ταχὺν ὡσ ὁ ἀπὸ γῆσ βίοσ, ἐν ᾧ καὶ τῆσ πολεμικῆσ εὐτολμίασ τὸ μὲν ὑπερμαχητικὸν τοῦ οἰκείου διαμένει καὶ πάρεστι, τὸ δὲ εἰσ ἀδικίαν καὶ πλεονεξίαν ἀνειμένον ἐκκέκοπται. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 16 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. inclined to fight for

Similar forms

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

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