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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

  • τί τόδε μεταίρεισ ἐξ ἀκινήτων βάθρων, Ἀγαμέμνονοσ παῖ, θεᾶσ ἄγαλμ’ ἐν ὠλέναισ; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode6)
  • εἰσ δὲ τοῦτον ὁ ἄνθρωποσ εἰσάγεται διὰ τῆσ γενέσεωσ οὐ χειροκμήτων οὐδ’ ἀκινήτων ἀγαλμάτων θεατήσ, ἀλλ’ οἱᾶ νοῦσ θεῖοσ αἰσθητὰ μιμήματα νοητῶν, φησὶν ὁ Πλάτων, ἔμφυτον ἀρχὴν ζωῆσ ἔχοντα καὶ κινήσεωσ ἔφηνεν, ἥλιον καὶ σελήνην καὶ ἄστρα καὶ ποταμοὺσ νέον ὕδωρ ἐξιέντασ ἀεὶ καὶ γῆν φυτοῖσ τε καὶ ζῴοισ τροφὰσ ἀναπέμπουσαν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 204)
  • οὐδ’ ἀκινήτων ἀγαλμάτων θεατήσ, ἀλλ’ οἱᾶ νοῦσ θεῖοσ αἰσθητὰ νοητῶν μιμήματα, φησὶν ὁ Πλάτων, ἔμφυτον ἀρχὴν ζωῆσ ἔχοντα καὶ κινήσεωσ ἔφηνεν, ἥλιον καὶ σελήνην καὶ ἄστρα καὶ ποταμοὺσ νέον ὕδωρ ἐξιέντασ ἀεὶ καὶ γῆν φυτοῖσ τε καὶ ζῴοισ τροφὰσ ἀναπέμπουσαν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 20 2:1)
  • εἶναι μέντοι καὶ τὴν τήρησιν αὐτῆσ καὶ τὴν ἐπισκευήν, ὥσπερ ἄλλο τι τῶν ἀκινήτων καὶ πατρίων ἱερῶν, προσήκουσαν τοῖσ ἱερεῦσιν. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 9 3:1)
  • "καὶ τὴν τοιαύτην εὐδοκιμεῖν μάλιστά πωσ οἰόνται τῶν συστημάτων χρῆσιν, ἐν τὰ πολλὰ τῶν διαστημάτων ἐστὶν ἄλογα οὐ μόνον τῶν κινεῖσθαι πεφυκότων φθόγγων, ἀλλὰ καί τινων ἀκινήτων ἀνιεμένων, ὥσ ἐστι δῆλον τοῖσ αἰσθάνεσθαι τῶν τοιούτων δυναμένοισ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 395)

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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