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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

  • διὸ καὶ βάσκανοσ ἔδοξεν εἶναι, προσλαμβάνων τοῖσ ἀναγκαίοισ τινὰ ὀνειδισμοῖσ κατὰ τῶν ἐνδόξων προσώπων οὐκ ἀναγκαῖα πράγματα, ὅμοιόν τι ποιῶν τοῖσ ἰατροῖσ, οἳ τέμνουσι καὶ καίουσι τὰ διεφθαρμένα τοῦ σώματοσ ἑώσ βάθουσ τὰ καυτήρια καὶ τὰσ τομὰσ φέροντεσ, οὐδὲν τῶν ὑγιαινόντων καὶ κατὰ φύσιν ἐχόντων στοχαζόμενοι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 6 8:2)
  • ἐν γὰρ τοῖσ θηρίοισ ἰσορροπεῖ πρὸσ ἀλκὴν ἡ φύσισ καὶ τὸ θῆλυ τοῦ ἄρρενοσ οὐδὲν ἀποδεῖ, πονεῖν τε τοὺσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἀναγκαίοισ πόνουσ ἀγωνίζεσθαί τε τοὺσ ὑπὲρ τῶν τέκνων ἀγῶνασ. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 4 10:4)
  • "τούτοισ ἐσμὲν ἡμεῖσ εὐδαίμονεσ καὶ μακάριοι τοῖσ περιττοῖσ, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐκείνοισ τοῖσ ἀναγκαίοισ· (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 8 8:1)
  • εἰ γὰρ ἠρκούμεθα τοῖσ ἀναγκαίοισ πρὸσ τὸν βίον, οὐκ ἂν ἦν γένοσ δανειστῶν, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ Κενταύρων ἔστιν οὐδὲ Γοργόνων· (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 7 7:1)
  • "ἐν γάρ τοῖσ ὅπλοισ ἀγερθέντεσ σκιαμαχοῦσι καὶ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἀκροχειρίζονται, ποτὲ δὲ καὶ μέχρι τραύματοσ προίασιν καὶ ἐκ τούτου ἐρεθισθέντεσ, ἐὰν μὴ ἐπισχῶσιν οἱ παρόντεσ, καὶ ἑώσ ἀναιρέσεωσ ἔρχονται, τὸ δὲ παλαιόν, φησίν, ὅτι παρατεθέντων κωλήνων τὸ μηρίον ὁ κράτιστοσ ἐλάμβανεν εἰ δέ τισ ἕτεροσ ἀντιποιήσαιτο, συνίσταντο μονομαχήσοντεσ μέχρι θανάτου, ἄλλοι δ’ ἐν θεάτρῳ λαβόντεσ ἀργύριον ἢ χρυσίον, οἱ δὲ οἴνου κεραμίων ἀριθμόν τινα, καὶ πιστωσάμενοι τὴν δόσιν καὶ τοῖσ ἀναγκαίοισ φίλοισ διαδωρησάμενοι ὕπτιοι ἐκταθέντεσ ἐπὶ θυρεῶν κεῖνται, καὶ παραστάσ τισ ξίφει τὸν λαιμὸν ἀποκόπτει" Εὐφορίων δ’ ὁ Χαλκιδεὺσ ἐν ἱστορικοῖσ ὑπομνήμασιν οὕτω γράφει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 402)

Synonyms

  1. with or by force

  2. constrained

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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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