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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

  • μετὰ δὲ τριετῆ χρόνον ἀπέστειλεν Ἰάσων Μενέλαον, τὸν τοῦ προσημαινομένου Σίμωνοσ ἀδελφόν, παρακομίζοντα τὰ χρήματα τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ περὶ πραγμάτων ἀναγκαίων ὑπομνηματισμοὺσ τελέσοντα. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 4:23)
  • τῶν πίστεων δι’ ἀναγκαίων συνάγεται λημμάτων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 2 1:1)
  • προσέτι τῇ ἄλλῃ περινοίᾳ κεκοσμημένον, ἀφόδων μὲν ἀναγκαίων δυσὶν ἀναχωρήσεσιν, ἐξόδοισ δὲ πολλαῖσ τεθυρωμένον, ὡρῶν δὲ διττὰσ δηλώσεισ, τὴν μὲν δι’ ὕδατοσ καὶ μυκήματοσ, τὴν δὲ δι’ ἡλίου ἐπιδεικνύμενον. (Lucian, (no name) 8:4)
  • οὐδ’ ἡντιναοῦν ἀλλὰ πενόμενοσ ἐγὼ καὶ τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἀπορούμενοσ καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν διδασκάλων ἐλεούμενοσ ἐπαιδευόμην, καί μοι τοιαῦτα παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἦν πρὸσ τὸ μαθεῖν ἐφόδια, λύπη καὶ ἐρημία καὶ ἀπορία καὶ μῖσοσ οἰκείων καὶ ἀποστροφὴ συγγενῶν. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 24:6)
  • οὐκοῦν μηδὲ ἐκεῖνο ὑμᾶσ ἔρωμαι, σέ τε καὶ τὴν Πρόνοιαν καὶ τὴν Εἱμαρμένην, τί δήποτε Φωκίων μὲν ὁ χρηστὸσ ἐν τοσαύτῃ πενίᾳ καὶ σπάνει τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἀπέθανε καὶ Ἀριστείδησ πρὸ αὐτοῦ, Καλλίασ δὲ καὶ Ἀλκιβιάδησ, ἀκόλαστα μειράκια, ὑπερεπλούτουν καὶ Μειδίασ ὁ ὑβριστὴσ καὶ Χάροψ ὁ Αἰγινήτησ, κίναιδοσ ἄνθρωποσ, τὴν μητέρα λιμῷ ἀπεκτονώσ, καὶ πάλιν Σωκράτησ μὲν παρεδόθη τοῖσ ἕνδεκα, Μέλητοσ δὲ οὐ παρεδόθη, καὶ Σαρδανάπαλλοσ μὲν ἐβασίλευε θῆλυσ ὤν, Γώχησ δὲ ἀνὴρ ἐνάρετοσ ἀνεσκολοπίσθη πρὸσ αὐτοῦ, διότι μὴ ἠρέσκετο τοῖσ γιγνομένοισ· (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 16:6)

Synonyms

  1. with or by force

  2. constrained

Related

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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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