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ἀδρανής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδρανής ἀδρανές

Structure: ἀδρανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: drai/nw

Sense

  1. inactive, powerless
  2. intractable

Examples

  • οὐχ ὁρᾷσ, ὅτι νυκτὸσ μὲν ἐπιούσησ τά τε σώματα δυσεργεῖσ βαρύτητεσ ἴσχουσι καὶ τὰσ ψυχὰσ ὄκνοι καταλαμβάνουσιν ἀδρανεῖσ, καὶ συσταλεὶσ; (Plutarch, An Recte Dictum Sit Latenter Esse Vivendum, section 51)
  • οὕτωσ αἱ μὲν ἰδιωτικῆσ καὶ ἀδυνάτου ψυχῆσ ἔννοιαί τε καὶ ἐπιθυμίαι ὑπηνέμιοί τε καὶ ἀδρανεῖσ, καὶ οὐδὲν ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν γίγνεται χαλεπόν, ἀλλ̓ ὥσπερ τὰ τῷ ὄντι ὀνείρατα ἀναστάντων εὐθὺσ οἴχεται καὶ οὐδὲν αὐτῶν, ὥσ φασι, τὸν ἥλιον οὐδὲ τὴν ἡμέραν ὑπομένει, παραπλησίωσ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἔχει ἐπιθυμήματά τε καὶ ἐλπίσματα. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 41:2)
  • εἶτα καὶ "φίλουσ ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ ἔχομεν δυνατοὺσ καὶ φίλ[ι]ασ" καὶ "οἱ Ἕλληνεσ ἀδρανεῖσ εἰσιν· (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. intractable

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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