Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • τὸ δὲ δι’ ἡδονῆσ ἐλπίδα μόνον πολλὰσ ἀηδίασ ὑπομένειν γελοῖον οἶμαι καὶ ἀνόητον, καὶ ταῦτα ὁρῶντασ ὡσ οἱ μὲν πόνοι σαφεῖσ καὶ πρόδηλοι καὶ ἀναγκαῖοι, τὸ δὲ ἐλπιζόμενον ἐκεῖνο, ὁτιδήποτέ ἐστιν τὸ ἡδύ, οὔτε ἐγένετό πω τοσούτου χρόνου, προσέτι δὲ οὐδὲ γενήσεσθαι ἐοίκεν, εἴ τισ ἐκ τῆσ ἀληθείασ λογίζοιτο. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 8:4)
  • ἕπεσθε πάντεσ, ἐπείπερ ἀναγκαῖοι δοκεῖτε πρὸσ τὴν δίκην. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 17:11)
  • ἐν δὲ ταύταισ ἀφικνοῦνται πρὸσ Ἀριαῖον καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι ἀναγκαῖοι καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ σὺν ἐκείνῳ Περσῶν τινεσ, <οἳ> παρεθάρρυνόν τε καὶ δεξιὰσ ἐνίοισ παρὰ βασιλέωσ ἔφερον μὴ μνησικακήσειν βασιλέα αὐτοῖσ τῆσ σὺν Κύρῳ ἐπιστρατείασ μηδὲ ἄλλου μηδενὸσ τῶν παροιχομένων. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 2:2)
  • ἔνθα οἱ οἶκοσ ἐήν, περὶ δὲ κλίσιον θέε πάντη, ἐν τῷ σιτέσκοντο καὶ ἵζανον ἠδὲ ἰαυόν δμῶεσ ἀναγκαῖοι, τοί οἱ φίλα ἐργάζοντο. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 24 17:2)
  • ἐν δ’ ἄρα Λαέρτησ Δολίοσ τ’ ἐσ τεύχε’ ἔδυνον, καὶ πολιοί περ ἐόντεσ, ἀναγκαῖοι πολεμισταί. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 24 58:2)

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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