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θεμα^τ-ικός , ή, όν,
A.of or for a θέμα:
I. that in which a valuable prize is proposed, ἀγὼν θ., opp. στεφανίτης and φυλλίτης, Poll.3.153, cf. IG3.128.20, IGRom.4.1432.20, 1442.8 (Smyrna), LW894.17 (Delph.); τρόπος θ. a style calculated for effect, Plu.2.1135c; cf. θεματίτης.
II. arbitrarily fixed, traditional, “παρατηρήσεις” Phld. Rh.1.195S.: -κόν, τό, ib.151S.
2. Gramm., primary, not derivative, e.g. ἄμφω, which has no sg., EM91.33: θεματικά, τά, elements, ib.232.21: Comp., θεματικώτερα <μέρη> τοῦ λόγου ὀνόματά ἐστι καὶ ῥήματα principal parts, A.D.Adv.121.5; -ώτεραι αἱ πρωτότυποι ἐν τοῖς γένεσιν the personal pronouns form their genders from different θέματα, Id.Pron.110.24. Adv. Comp. -ώτερον, κλιθῆναι by means of different θέματα, e.g. ἐγώ, ἐμοῦ, Id.Synt.102.4.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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