διαλεκτικός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to have a conversation”) + -τῐκός (-tikós, verbal adjective suffix): literally, “related to conversation”.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /di.a.lek.ti.kós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /di.a.lɛk.tiˈkos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ði.a.lek.tiˈkos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ði.a.lek.tiˈkos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ði.a.lek.tiˈkos/
Adjective
δῐᾰλεκτῐκός • (dialektikós) m (feminine δῐᾰλεκτῐκή, neuter δῐᾰλεκτῐκόν); first/second declension
(Attic, Koine)
- (rare) Conversational
- Skilled in dialectic
- 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 390c:
- Σωκράτης: τὸν δὲ ἐρωτᾶν καὶ ἀποκρίνεσθαι ἐπιστάμενον ἄλλο τι σὺ καλεῖς ἢ διαλεκτικόν;
- Sōkrátēs: tòn dè erōtân kaì apokrínesthai epistámenon állo ti sù kaleîs ḕ dialektikón?
- Socrates: And the one who knows how to ask questions and answer them – would you call him anything other than skilled in dialectic?
- Σωκράτης: τὸν δὲ ἐρωτᾶν καὶ ἀποκρίνεσθαι ἐπιστάμενον ἄλλο τι σὺ καλεῖς ἢ διαλεκτικόν;
- Dialectical
Inflection
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | δῐᾰλεκτῐκός dialektikós |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκή dialektikḗ |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκόν dialektikón |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκώ dialektikṓ |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκᾱ́ dialektikā́ |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκώ dialektikṓ |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκοί dialektikoí |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκαί dialektikaí |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκᾰ́ dialektiká | |||||
Genitive | δῐᾰλεκτῐκοῦ dialektikoû |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκῆς dialektikês |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκοῦ dialektikoû |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκοῖν dialektikoîn |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκαῖν dialektikaîn |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκοῖν dialektikoîn |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκῶν dialektikôn |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκῶν dialektikôn |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκῶν dialektikôn | |||||
Dative | δῐᾰλεκτῐκῷ dialektikôi |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκῇ dialektikêi |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκῷ dialektikôi |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκοῖν dialektikoîn |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκαῖν dialektikaîn |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκοῖν dialektikoîn |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκοῖς dialektikoîs |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκαῖς dialektikaîs |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκοῖς dialektikoîs | |||||
Accusative | δῐᾰλεκτῐκόν dialektikón |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκήν dialektikḗn |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκόν dialektikón |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκώ dialektikṓ |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκᾱ́ dialektikā́ |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκώ dialektikṓ |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκούς dialektikoús |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκᾱ́ς dialektikā́s |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκᾰ́ dialektiká | |||||
Vocative | δῐᾰλεκτῐκέ dialektiké |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκή dialektikḗ |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκόν dialektikón |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκώ dialektikṓ |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκᾱ́ dialektikā́ |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκώ dialektikṓ |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκοί dialektikoí |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκαί dialektikaí |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκᾰ́ dialektiká | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
δῐᾰλεκτῐκῶς dialektikôs |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκώτερος dialektikṓteros |
δῐᾰλεκτῐκώτᾰτος dialektikṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δῐᾰλεκτῐκή (dialektikḗ)
References
- διαλεκτικός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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