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ζητητέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζητητέος ζητητέᾱ ζητητέον

Structure: ζητητε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: zhte/w의 분사형,

Sense

  1. to be sought
  2. must seek

Examples

  • ζητητέαι γάρ ἐστε. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode23)
  • ὅτι μὲν οὖν ὀρθῶσ διώρισται περὶ τῶν αἰτίων καὶ πόσα καὶ ποῖα, μαρτυρεῖν ἐοίκασιν ἡμῖν καὶ οὗτοι πάντεσ, οὐ δυνάμενοι θιγεῖν ἄλλησ αἰτίασ, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ ὅτι ζητητέαι αἱ ἀρχαὶ ἢ οὕτωσ ἅπασαι ἢ τινὰ τρόπον τοιοῦτον, δῆλον· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 1 158:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be sought

  2. must seek

Related

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

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