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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

  • ὁ νέοσ καὶ λόγου μηδενὸσ γευόμενοσ οὐ μόνον ἄκαρποσ ὅλωσ καὶ ἀβλαστὴσ διαμένει πρὲισ ἀρετήν, ἀλλὰ καὶ διαστρέφοιτ’ ἂν πρὸσ κακίαν, ὥσπερ ἐκ χώρασ ἀκινήτου καὶ ἀργῆσ ἄγρια πολλὰ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἀναδιδούσ, δῆλὸν ἐστι. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 2 11:2)
  • πολλοῦ γε καὶ δεῖν, ἐπεὶ τὸ κάλλιστον αὐτῆσ ἀγαθὸν ἀπολεῖται, τὸ πνεῦμα, καὶ οὐδὲν διοίσει σώματοσ καλοῦ μέν, ἀκινήτου δὲ καὶ νεκροῦ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 54 3:1)
  • βέβηκε Δῃάνειρα τὴν πανυστάτην ὁδῶν ἁπασῶν ἐξ ἀκινήτου ποδόσ. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode7)
  • δέδεικται δ’ ἐν τοῖσ φυσικοῖσ περὶ τούτων, ἀνάγκη καὶ τούτων ἑκάστην τῶν φορῶν ὑπ’ ἀκινήτου τε κινεῖσθαι καθ’ αὑτὴν καὶ ἀϊδίου οὐσίασ. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 12 90:1)
  • νόμου δ’ ὄντοσ ἀκινήτου, κἂν μηδὲν ὑμεῖσ προβουλεύσητε, τούτῳ δήπου χρηστέον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 41 3:4)

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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