Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

κατορθωτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατορθωτικός κατορθωτική κατορθωτικόν

Structure: κατορθωτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from katorqo/w

Sense

  1. likely or able to succeed

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

  • Ἄρατοσ μὲν γὰρ, ἀργότεροσ εἶναι δοκῶν πρὸσ τοὺσ πολεμικοὺσ ἀγῶνασ, ὁμιλίᾳ καὶ πρᾳότητι καὶ φιλίαισ βασιλικαῖσ τὰ πλεῖστα κατειργάσατο τῶν πραγμάτων, ὡσ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ ἐκείνου γέγραπται, Φιλοποίμην δὲ ἀγαθὸσ πολεμιστὴσ ὢν καὶ διὰ τῶν ὅπλων ἐνεργόσ, ἔτι δ’ εὐτυχὴσ καὶ κατορθωτικὸσ εὐθὺσ ἐν ταῖσ πρώταισ γενόμενοσ μάχαισ, ἅμα τῇ δυνάμει τὸ φρόνημα τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ηὔξησε νικᾶν ἐθισθέντων μετ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ κατευτυχεῖν ἐν τοῖσ πλείστοισ ἀγῶσι. (Plutarch, Philopoemen, chapter 8 4:1)
  • τριῶν γὰρ ὄντων τῶν εἰσ τὰσ αἱρέσεισ καὶ τριῶν τῶν εἰσ τὰσ φυγάσ, καλοῦ συμφέροντοσ ἡδέοσ, καὶ τριῶν τῶν ἐναντίων, αἰσχροῦ βλαβεροῦ λυπηροῦ, περὶ ταῦτα μὲν πάντα ὁ ἀγαθὸσ κατορθωτικόσ ἐστιν ὁ δὲ κακὸσ ἁμαρτητικόσ, μάλιστα δὲ περὶ τὴν ἡδονήν· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2 29:4)

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

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