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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

  • καὶ γὰρ ἀναγκαῖοσ εἰσ ἐπιστήμην παντὶ ὁ λόγοσ καὶ ἄλλωσ τῆσ μεγίστησ ἀρετῆσ, λέγω δὴ φρονήσεωσ, περιέχει ἔπαινον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 1:2)
  • ἆρ’ οὖν, ἢν Κῦροσ, ὡσ λογοποιοῦσι τινεσ, ἐπίῃ Λυδοῖσ, χρυσᾶσ μαχαίρασ σὺ ποιήσῃ τῷ στρατῷ, ἢ ὁ σίδηροσ ἀναγκαῖοσ τότε; (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 12:17)
  • εἶτ’ ἐχόμενοσ αὐτῶν οἶκοσ, περιττὸσ μὲν ὡσ πρὸσ τὸ λουτρόν, ἀναγκαῖοσ δὲ ὡσ πρὸσ τὴν τῶν εὐδαιμονεστέρων ὑποδοχήν. (Lucian, (no name) 5:2)
  • ^ οὐ γὰρ τοῖσ τυχοῦσι θηρίοισ προσπολεμῆσαι δεήσει με, ἀλλ’ ἀλαζόσιν ἀνθρώποισ καὶ δυσελέγκτοισ, ἀεί τινασ ἀποφυγὰσ εὑρισκομένοισ, ὥστε ἀναγκαῖοσ ὁ Ἔλεγχοσ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 17:9)
  • εἷσ ἔτι μοι καταλείπεται λόγοσ ὁ περὶ τῶν μιμησαμένων τὸν ἄνδρα ῥητόρων τε καὶ συγγραφέων, ἀναγκαῖοσ μὲν ὤν, ὥσπέρ τισ καὶ ἄλλοσ, εἰσ τὴν συντέλειαν τῆσ ὑποθέσεωσ, ὄκνον δέ τινα καὶ πολλὴν εὐλάβειαν ἡμῖν παρέχων, μή τινα παράσχωμεν ἀφορμὴν διαβολῆσ τοῖσ πάντα συκοφαντεῖν εἰωθόσιν ἀλλοτρίαν τῆσ ἐπιεικείασ, ᾗ κεχρήμεθα καὶ περὶ τοὺσ λόγουσ καὶ περὶ τὰ ἤθη· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 521)

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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