dialecticus

Latin

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Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.

Ancient Greek διά (diá)

Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti

Proto-Hellenic *légō

Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)

Ancient Greek διαλέγομαι (dialégomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)

Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)

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Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)

Ancient Greek δῐᾰλεκτῐκός (dĭălektĭkós)bor.

Latin dialecticus

dialecticus (feminine dialectica, neuter dialecticum); first/second-declension adjective

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	dialecticus	dialectica	dialecticum	dialecticī	dialecticae	dialectica
genitive	dialecticī	dialecticae	dialecticī	dialecticōrum	dialecticārum	dialecticōrum
dative	dialecticō	dialecticae	dialecticō	dialecticīs
accusative	dialecticum	dialecticam	dialecticum	dialecticōs	dialecticās	dialectica
ablative	dialecticō	dialecticā	dialecticō	dialecticīs
vocative	dialectice	dialectica	dialecticum	dialecticī	dialecticae	dialectica

dialecticus m (genitive dialecticī); second declension

Second-declension noun.

“dialecticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“dialecticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“dialecticus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
- (ambiguous) an accomplished dialectician: homo in dialecticis versatissimus
- (ambiguous) to be ignorant of even the elements of logic: dialecticis ne imbutum quidem esse