πραγματικός

From πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”) +‎ -ικός (-ikós).

πρᾱγμᾰτῐκός • (prāgmatikós) m (feminine πρᾱγμᾰτῐκή, neuter πρᾱγμᾰτῐκόν); first/second declension

1. fit for action or business; businesslike, statesmanlike
   1. (substantive) agent, attorney
2. (of things)
   1. (of history) political (including military)
   2. (of speech or action) able, prudent, statesmanlike
3. relating to subject-matter
   1. relating to fact, factual
   2. material (opposed to formal, verbal)
4. (magic) effective spell
5. troublesome, formidable (of a citadel)

• Dutch: pragmatisch
• English: pragmatic
• French: pragmatique
• German: pragmatisch
• Greek: πραγματικός (pragmatikós)
• Hungarian: pragmatikus
• Italian: pragmatico
• Polish: pragmatyczny
• Portuguese: pragmático
• Romanian: pragmatic
• Spanish: pragmático

• “πραγματικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πραγματικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πραγματικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Inherited from Ancient Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikós).

• IPA^(key): /pɾaɣmatiˈkos/
• Hyphenation: πραγ‧μα‧τι‧κός

πραγματικός • (pragmatikós) m (feminine πραγματική, neuter πραγματικό)

1. real, factual, actual (having physical existence), (having existence or substance)

• αληθινός (alithinós)

• (antonym(s) of “imaginary”): φανταστικός (fantastikós)
• (antonym(s) of “fake”): ψευδής (psevdís)
• (antonym(s) of “made up”): πλασματικός (plasmatikós)

• see: πράγμα n (prágma, “thing, entity”)