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ἀναγκαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀναγκαῖος ἀναγκαῖη ἀναγκαῖον

Structure: ἀναγκαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)na/gkh

Sense

  1. with or by force
  2. constraining, applying force, of constraint, slavery, of slavery, a violent death, the compulsory nature, compulsion
  3. forcible, cogent
  4. constrained, forced, perforce
  5. necessary, it is necessary, necessarily requiring
  6. necessary things, needs, appointed order of things, laws of nature
  7. absolutely necessary, indispensable, barely sufficient, the least, that was absolutely necessary, the least that could be called
  8. connected by necessary ties, related by blood
  9. necessarily, of necessity, perf

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν πλεῖστα ταῖσ ἀναγκαίαισ ὁ βίοσ ἡμῶν ἐπιθυμίαισ καὶ ἡδοναῖσ διοικεῖται, ταῖσ δ’ οὔτ’ ἀναγκαίαισ ἀλλὰ φυσικαῖσ; (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 6 13:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἐπηγγειλάμην καὶ Τιβεριάδι κατασκευάσειν τείχη καὶ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ πόλεσιν αὐτῶν ταῖσ ἀναγκαίαισ, πιστεύσαντεσ ὑπεχώρουν ἕκαστοσ εἰσ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ. (Flavius Josephus, 173:1)
  • ἔστι δὲ μέγα καὶ θαυμαστόν, ἂν ὅσον ἡ φύσισ δεομένη δέχεται τῶν ἡδονῶν προσιέμενοι τῷ σώματι, μᾶλλον δ’ ἂν τὰ πολλὰ παρὰ τὰσ ὀρέξεισ αὐτῷ διαμαχόμενοι καὶ ἀναβαλλόμενοι καὶ μόλισ πάνυ ταῖσ ἀναγκαίαισ χρηματίζοντεσ ἢ ὥσ φησιν ὁ Πλάτων καὶ δάκνοντοσ καὶ κατατείνοντοσ ἐνδιδόντεσ ἀβλαβεῖσ ἀπαλλάττωμεν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 71)
  • "καθόλου γάρ, ὥσ φημι, δύο πάσησ γενέσεωσ αἰτίασ ἐχούσησ, οἱ μὲν σφόδρα παλαιοὶ θεολόγοι καὶ ποιηταὶ τῇ κρείττονι τὸν νοῦν προσέχειν εἵλοντο, τοῦτο δὴ τὸ κοινὸν ἐπιφθεγγόμενοι πᾶσι πράγμασι Ζεὺσ ἀρχὴ Ζεὺσ μέσσα, Διὸσ δ’ ἐκ πάντα πέλονται ταῖσ δ’ ἀναγκαίαισ καὶ φυσικαῖσ οὐκ ἔτι προσῄεσαν αἰτίαισ. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 481)

Synonyms

  1. with or by force

  2. constrained

Related

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

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