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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

  • οἱ δὲ ἄνθρωποι καὶ εἰσ τὰ ἄλλα μὲν ἀναγκαίῳ χρῶνται τῷ πυρί, μάλιστα δὲ ἐσ τὰσ θυσίασ, ὅπωσ ἔχοιεν κνισᾶν τὰσ ἀγυιὰσ καὶ τοῦ λιβανωτοῦ θυμιᾶν καὶ τὰ μηρία καίειν ἐπὶ τῶν βωμῶν. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 19:1)
  • τῷ δ’ ἀναγκαίῳ τρόπῳ ὃσ ἀντιτείνει σκαιὸν ἡγοῦμαι βροτόν. (Euripides, Heracles, episode 4:8)
  • καὶ ἔτι τὴν Πλατωνικὴν ἐκείνην περίοδον, ἣν ἐν τῷ ἐπιταφίῳ ὁ ἀνὴρ γράφει, τίσ οὐκ ἂν φαίη παραπληρώματι λέξεωσ οὐκ ἀναγκαίῳ προσηρανίσθαι; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 95)
  • σημαίνει δ’ ἡ φωνή, τοῦτο πρᾶττε, προσέχειν κελεύουσα τοῖσ ἱεροῖσ καὶ μηδὲν ἔργον ἐμβαλεῖν μεταξὺ μηδὲ χρείαν ἀσχολίασ, ὡσ τὰ πλεῖστα τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ἀναγκαίῳ τινὶ τρόπῳ καὶ διὰ βίασ περαινόμενα. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 25 2:3)
  • πολλὰσ γὰρ καὶ παντοίασ ἔχει διαφορὰσ καὶ μεγέθει καὶ μικρότητι καὶ τῷ καλῷ καὶ ἀναγκαίῳ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 19:3)

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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