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χρηματιστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρηματιστικός χρηματιστική χρηματιστικόν

Structure: χρηματιστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from xrhmatisth/s

Sense

  1. of or for money-making, a man of business, portending gain, the commercial class, the art of money-making, traffic

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

  • καὶ τοῦτο μὲν ὀρθῶσ ὁ Κράσσοσ, εἴπερ, ὡσ ἔλεγεν, ἡγεῖτο τὰ μὲν ἄλλα διὰ τῶν οἰκετῶν χρῆναι, τοὺσ δὲ οἰκέτασ δι’ αὑτοῦ κυβερνᾶν τὴν γὰρ οἰκονομικήν ἐν ἀψύχοισ χρηματιστικὴν οὖσαν, ἐν ἀνθρώποισ πολιτικὴν γιγνομένην ὁρῶμεν ἐκεῖνο δὲ οὐκ εὖ, τὸ μηδένα νομίζειν μηδὲ φάσκειν εἶναι πλούσιον, ὃσ οὐ δύναται τρέφειν ἀπὸ τῆσ οὐσίασ στρατόπεδον ὁ γὰρ πόλεμοσ οὐ τεταγμένα σιτεῖται, κατὰ τόν Ἀρχίδαμον, ὥσθ’ ὁ πρὸσ πόλεμον πλοῦτοσ ἀόριστοσ, καὶ πολὺ τῆσ Μαρίου γνώμησ ἀπηρτημένωσ. (Plutarch, chapter 2 7:1)
  • διχῶσ δὲ τὰ χρήματα λέγομεν καὶ τὴν χρηματιστικήν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 86:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅσα γίνεται δι’ ἡμῶν, μὴ ὡσαύτωσ δ’ ἀεί, περὶ τούτων βουλευόμεθα, οἱο͂ν περὶ τῶν κατ’ ἰατρικὴν καὶ χρηματιστικήν, καὶ περὶ κυβερνητικὴν μᾶλλον ἢ γυμναστικήν, ὅσῳ ἧττον διηκρίβωται, καὶ ἔτι περὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ὁμοίωσ, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ περὶ τὰσ τέχνασ ἢ τὰσ ἐπιστήμασ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 45:2)
  • ἔστι δὲ γένοσ ἄλλο κτητικῆσ, ἣν μάλιστα καλοῦσι, καὶ δίκαιον αὐτὸ καλεῖν, χρηματιστικήν, δι’ ἣν οὐδὲν δοκεῖ πέρασ εἶναι πλούτου καὶ κτήσεωσ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 108:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὸν πλοῦτον πολλάκισ τιθέασι νομίσματοσ πλῆθοσ, διὰ τὸ περὶ τοῦτ’ εἶναι τὴν χρηματιστικὴν καὶ τὴν καπηλικήν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 122:2)

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

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