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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

  • Ὅταν τοίνυν ὁρᾷσ κἀκεῖνα, μήτε μαίνεσθαι ὑπολάβῃσ αὐτοὺσ μήτε εἴπῃσ, ὡσ οὐδεμιᾶσ ἕνεκα αἰτίασ ἀναγκαίασ ταλαιπωροῦσι, μήτε τυράννου βιαζομένου μήτε πολεμίων διατιθέντων. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 38:6)
  • δοκῶ δέ μοι καλῶσ ἂν ποιῆσαι, εἰ τὰσ αἰτίασ ἀφ’ ὧν ἐπὶ τὸν τοιοῦτον βίον ἀφικνοῦνταί τινεσ προεξετάσασ δείξαιμι οὐ πάνυ βιαίουσ οὐδ’ ἀναγκαίασ· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 5:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐπειράθη, ἀπῆλθεν ἐπαινῶν με τῆσ δικαιοσύνησ καὶ ἐλεῶν τῆσ ἀναγκαίασ ὠμότητοσ. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 10:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ἥκομεν γὰρ εἰσ ἀναγκαίασ τύχασ, θυγατρὸσ αἱματηρὸν ἐκπρᾶξαι φόνον. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 4:4)
  • Δημήτριοσ δέ, καὶ πρὶν εἰσ τύχασ ἐλθεῖν ἀναγκαίασ, ἐλευθερῶν τὴν Ἑλλάδα καὶ τῶν πόλεων ἐξελαύνων τὰσ φρουρὰσ διετέλεσεν, οὐχ ὥσπερ Ἀντώνιοσ, ὅτι τοὺσ ἐλευθερώσαντασ τὴν Ῥώμην ἀπέκτεινεν ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ, σεμνυνόμενοσ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Demetrius and Antony, chapter 2 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. with or by force

  2. constrained

Related

Similar forms

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

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