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ἀδύνατος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδύνατος ἀδύνατος ἀδύνατον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + δυνατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. (of persons) unable
  2. (absolute) without strength, powerless, weak

Examples

  • ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἀδυνατώτερον. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 3 65:3)
  • ἆρ’ οὖν γίγνεσθαι ἔτι ἀδυνατώτερον; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 221:6)
  • οὗ δὲ μήτε μέρη εἰσὶ μήτε ὅλον τυγχάνει ὄν, οὐ πολὺ ἔτι ἀδυνατώτερον ἐγγίγνεσθαί που, μήτε κατὰ μέρη μήτε κατὰ ὅλον ἐγγιγνόμενον; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 222:4)
  • καὶ ἔτι γε αὖ καὶ ὃ οἶδε καὶ αἰσθάνεται καὶ ἔχει τὸ σημεῖον κατὰ τὴν αἴσθησιν, οἰηθῆναι αὖ ἕτερόν τι ὧν οἶδε καὶ αἰσθάνεται καὶ ἔχει αὖ καὶ ἐκείνου τὸ σημεῖον κατὰ τὴν αἴσθησιν, ἀδυνατώτερον ἔτι ἐκείνων, εἰ οἱο͂́ν τε. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 304:2)
  • διὰ πλειόνων δ’ ἑρμηνέων ἐκκλησιάζειν, ἅμα τετράκισ καὶ πεντάκισ περὶ ταὐτοῦ λέγοντα πράγματοσ, σχεδὸν ὡσ εἰπεῖν ἔτι τοῦ πρόσθεν ἀδυνατώτερον. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 67 9:3)
  • μακρῷ τοῦτ’ ἀδυνατώτερόν ἐστι. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 740)

Synonyms

  1. unable

  2. without strength

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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