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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

  • κἀγὼ δὲ ἀσθενῶσ διεκείμην, ὑμῶν τὴν τιμὴν καὶ τὴν εὔνοιαν ἂν ἐμνημόνευον φιλοστόργωσ. ἐπανάγων ἐκ τῶν περὶ τὴν Περσίδα τόπων καὶ περιπεσὼν ἀσθενείᾳ δυσχέρειαν ἐχούσῃ, ἀναγκαῖον ἡγησάμην φροντίσαι τῆσ κοινῆσ πάντων ἀσφαλείασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:21)
  • πάντεσ δὲ τὰσ πίστεισ ποιοῦνται διὰ τοῦ δεικνύναι ὁτιοῦν, δῆλον δ’ ἡμῖν τοῦτο ἐκ τῶν ἀναλυτικῶν, ἀναγκαῖον ἑκάτερον αὐτῶν ἑκατέρῳ τούτων τὸ αὐτὸ εἶναι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 7 1:3)
  • πᾶσι δ’ οὖν ἀπορραγῆναι ἀναγκαῖον. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 19:10)
  • ἓν δὲ τοῦτο διισχυρίζομαι, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι μεγάλωσ ἐπιτυχεῖν ἐν οὐδενὶ τρόπῳ μὴ τοιαῦτα τολμῶντα καὶ παραβαλλόμενον, ἐν οἷσ καὶ σφάλλεσθαι ἐστὶν ἀναγκαῖον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 2 12:3)
  • σύ τε γὰρ ὁμολογεῖσ ἀναγκαῖον εἶναι τὸν ἐπιβαλλόμενον μεγάλοισ καὶ σφάλλεσθαί ποτε, ἐγώ τέ φημι τῆσ ὑψηλῆσ καὶ μεγαλοπρεποῦσ καὶ παρακεκινδυνευμένησ φράσεωσ ἐφιέμενον Πλάτωνα μὴ περὶ πάντα τὰ μέρη κατορθοῦν, πολλοστὴν μέντοι μοῖραν ἔχειν τῶν κατορθουμένων τὰ διαμαρτανόμενα ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 2 13:2)

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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