Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀκίνητος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκίνητος ἀκίνητη ἀκίνητον

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

Etym.: kine/w

Sense

  1. unmoved, motionless
  2. idle, sluggish
  3. unmoved, unaltered
  4. immovable, hard to move, immovable
  5. not to be stirred or touched, inviolate
  6. not to be shaken, steadfast, stubborn

Examples

  • καὶ ἀντέστησαν καὶ τὴν δύναμιν τῶν ὑπεναντίων ἐπλήρωσαν ταραχῆσ καὶ δειλίασ καὶ ἀκινήτοισ ἔδησαν πέδαισ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 6:19)
  • δεῖ δ’ ἐκ τῶν ὁμολογουμένων, οἱο͂ν ὑγιείασ ἰσχύοσ σωφροσύνησ, ὅτι καὶ ἐν τοῖσ ἀκινήτοισ μᾶλλον τὸ καλόν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 102:4)
  • οὐκ ἔστι δὲ τὸ ἐν τοῖσ ἀκινήτοισ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 110:1)
  • ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ἀκινήτοισ ἀρχαῖσ, οἱο͂ν ἐν ταῖσ μαθηματικαῖσ, οὐκ ἔστι τὸ κύριον, καίτοι λέγεταί γε καθ’ ὁμοιότητα· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 97:3)
  • τὰ δὲ μικρὰ καὶ χρηματικὰ συμβόλαια καὶ μεταπίπτοντα ταῖσ χρείαισ ἄλλοτε ἄλλωσ, βέλτιον ἦν μὴ καταλαμβάνειν ἐγγράφοισ ἀνάγκαισ μηδὲ ἀκινήτοισ ἔθεσιν, ἀλλ’ ἐᾶν ἐπὶ τῶν καιρῶν, προσθέσεισ λαμβάνοντα καὶ ἀφαιρέσεισ, ἃσ ἂν οἱ πεπαιδευμένοι δοκιμάσωσι. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 13 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. immovable

  2. not to be stirred or touched

Related

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

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