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διᾱκον-ικός

diakonikos

serviceable

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Where it lives

Gorgias 3 · 1.14/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Politics 3 · 0.46/10k

What it meant

διᾱκον-ικός · diakon-ikos — LSJ

serviceable, servants’, menial, in the course of service, serviceably

serviceable, Ar. Pl. 1170, etc.; -κή (sc. τέχνη), ἡ, Pl. Plt. 299d; δ. φύσις Id. ap. Plu. Def.orac. 2.416f: Comp. -ώτερος Id. Grg. 517b; αἱ δ. πράξεις, τὰ δ. ἔργα servants’ business, menial work, Arist. Pol. 1277a36, 1333a7; δ. ἀρεταί ib. 1259b23. Adv. -κῶς in the course of service, Men. 113; serviceably, Sor. 1.80.

In the wild

διακονικὰς · diakonikas Aristotle, Politics 1259b (DIORISIS sentence 288)
διακονικὰς · diakonikas Aristotle, Politics 1277a (DIORISIS sentence 966)
διακονικῶν · diakonikōn Aristotle, Politics 1333a (DIORISIS sentence 2825)
διακονικώτεροι · diakonikōteroi Plato, Gorgias 517
διακονική · diakonikē Plato, Gorgias 517
διακονικὰς · diakonikas Plato, Gorgias 518

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