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αἱρετ-ός

airetos

that may be taken

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Where it lives

Nicomachean Ethics 44 · 7.81/10k
Virtues and Vices 1 · 6.74/10k
Politics 42 · 6.43/10k
Eudemian Ethics 14 · 5.37/10k
Apology 1 · 5/10k
Rhetoric 18 · 4.19/10k
Philebus 6 · 3.4/10k
Proverbia 3 · 2.7/10k
Analytica priora et posteriora 14 · 2.52/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k
De Interpretatione 1 · 1.61/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

αἱρετ-ός · hairet-os — LSJ

that may be taken, conquered, to be understood

that may be taken or conquered, δόλῳ Hdt. 4.201; to be understood, Pl. Phd. 81b.

II to be chosen, eligible

(αἱρέομαι) to be chosen, eligible, opp. φευκτός, Pl. Phlb. 21d sq., Arist. EN 1097a32, etc.: freq. in Comp. or Sup., Hdt. 1.126, 156, al.; ζόης πονηρᾶς θάνατος αἱρετώτερος A. Fr. 401.

2 chosen, elected, commissioners

chosen, elected, esp. opp. κληρωτός, Isoc. 12.154, Pl. Lg. 759b, Arist. Pol. 1294b9, cf. Pl. Lg. 915c, Aeschin. 3.13; αἱ. βασιλῆς Pl. Mx. 238d; τυραννίς Arist. Pol. 1285a31:—αἱ. ἄνδρες commissioners, Plu. Lyc. 26. οἱ αἱ. X. An. 1.3.21: = Lat. optiones, Lyd. Mag. 1.46.

3 that may be chosen

that may be chosen, opp. αἱρετέος (q.v.), Chrysipp.Stoic. 3.22.

In the wild

αἱρετώτερον · hairetōteron Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1940)
αἱρετωτέρα · hairetōtera Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1929)
αἱρετωτέρα · hairetōtera Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1929)
αἱρετώτεροι · hairetōteroi Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1398)
αἱρετώτερον · hairetōteron Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1390)
αἱρετώτερα · hairetōtera Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1385)

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